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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Oct 1, 2021, 08:07 PM Oct 2021

Biden floats $2 trillion price tag social spending package, pushing for cuts to salvage his economic

President Joe Biden suggested a $2 trillion price tag for a social spending plan containing the bulk of his economic agenda, trying to broker a compromise between the party's warring factions and get his agenda over the finish line with wafer-thin Democratic majorities.

Biden told progressive Democrats on Friday they need to lower their expectations when it comes to the price tag on the party's much-debated spending bill. But he also endorsed their demands for a two-track strategy to approve an infrastructure bill and social spending plans in tandem.

The president prodded his fellow Democrats to support a total cost of between $1.9 trillion and $2.3 trillion on the spending package that once was slated to cost $3.5 trillion, according to Politico.

Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas told reporters Biden said the final number for reconciliation will likely be $2 trillion. Cuellar also said the president "basically linked" the fate of the packages together.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-floats-dollar2-trillion-price-tag-social-spending-package-pushing-for-cuts-to-salvage-his-economic-plans/ar-AAP3lVX

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I'm fine with 2.3 qazplm135 Oct 2021 #1

qazplm135

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1. I'm fine with 2.3
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 09:39 PM
Oct 2021

get it signed and get it done and that's going to be 3+ trillion overall for infrastructure plus another 2 trillion in COVID relief.

We will have spent twice as much in one year for the American people as we spend for 20 years of war.

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