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Here’s what’s in Democrats’ big social-spending bill, as community college, key climate program seen nixed

Posted on AllSides October 20th, 2021
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Negotiations continue among Democratic moderates and progressives over President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan, a sweeping proposal targeting “human infrastructure,” climate change and other party priorities.

Biden and other top Democrats had been aiming for a $3.5 trillion social-spending package that would move in tandem with a bipartisan infrastructure PAVE, +1.23% bill, but objections from moderates have shifted the White House to considering toplines ranging from $1.9 trillion to $2.3 trillion.

The president on Wednesday is scheduled to push his economic agenda in a speech in his birthplace of Scranton, Pa., amid reports that two key...

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