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By Heather SullivanPublished November 8, 2021



Houston - The House has passed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and hopes to pass the Build Back Better bill before Thanksgiving.

After hitting an impass Friday, the House passed a procedural bill instead to set up passage of the Build Back Better Bill, while passing and sending infrastructure bill to the President's desk.


The infrastructure bill not only includes $550 billion for roads, bridges, trains, and public transit. It also includes $65 billion to expand broadband access, which is key to helping kids with schooling, and helping people access jobs and information.

The Build Back Better bill has a number of items to help people financially. The White House says it would reduce premiums for Affordable Care Act healthplans by an average of $600 a year and expand Medicaid to low-income people in states such as Texas, which did not expand it.

"Which means they’ll be able to catch cancer before its spreads, get help for mental health challenges, see their doctor for all kinds of things," said Peter Clark with Texans Care for Children.

It also increases coverage for home healthcare for the elderly and disabled and lets Medicare negotiate lower drug prices and cover hearing aids.



Build Back Better would also continue the increased Child Tax Credit one more year. That's $3,000 per child age 6 to 17, and $3,600 for a child under 6.

"So families will keep seeing that money going into their pocket, which makes such a huge difference when families are getting squeezed by higher prices on gas and rent," said Clark.

The bill would limit childcare costs to 7% of a family's income for households earning under $300,000 a year.

"That family with two kids in child care could see a savings of around $900 a month. It’s a gamechanger for families who are trying to work and take care of their kids," added Clark.



The bill offers four weeks of paid family leave for things like illness or a new baby. Plus another $90 billion in rental assistance, money to build or restore one million units of affordable housing nationwide, and $10 billion for down payment assistance for first-generation homebuyers.

The House and Senate say they're aiming to pass the Build Back Better Bill before Thanksgiving.
 
Georgia Recorder

November 10, 2021

Brookhaven and Doraville mayors joined conservationists Wednesday to call on Congress to support milestone legislation they say will reduce pollution, create high-paying jobs, and address systemic environmental injustice.

As early as next week, the House of Representatives could take up a vote on President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act that provides a $555 billion investment in clean energy and attacking climate change.

The Build Back Better Act edged closer to a vote following last week's historic approval of a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that is winning praise for its ability to address climate change and increase equity for disadvantaged communities. Biden plans to sign the infrastructure bill in a ceremony Monday, setting up a showdown next week for his other plan that is downsized from a package that sat at $3.5 trillion in September.


On Wednesday, environmentalists and the two metro Atlanta mayors gathered at a suburban park north of Atlanta to applaud the infrastructure bill as a major step to attack the looming climate crisis. However, they said even more progress can come through Build Back Better.

The legislation sets policies and allocates billions to cut carbon pollution in half by 2030.

Legislation also aims to prepare Georgians to work in new clean energy jobs while lowering pollution that creates health burdens that disproportionately fall on minorities and the poor.

"The city of Doraville is one of the most diverse communities in metro Atlanta," Doraville Mayor Joseph Geierman said at Murphey Candler Park in Brookhaven. "We have the highest percentage of people of Latino or Hispanic origin in the state. We also have many people who are at the bottom of the income scale and who need access to good-paying jobs and equitable opportunities. Communities of color and their vulnerable groups are often hit first and worst by the impacts of climate change."

Among the top priorities of the environmental group Moms Clean Air Force is replacing 470,000 diesel school buses across the country with zero emission buses. Almeta Cooper, Georgia field coordinator for Moms Clean Air Force, says that will protect the health of about 800,000 students and bus drivers while helping the country reach the 2030 carbon emissions goal.

"This is a goal that scientists say is necessary to prevent the impacts of climate change," Cooper said. "Time is running out. Going big on climate action and investing in our communities is crucial both to Georgia and to our nation."

To prepare to make the most of the sweeping green energy initiative, an organization in Cobb County is sharing ideas with local government officials about how to best use of the federal funds and changing policies.

"Commissioner Jerica Richardson has an environmental justice agreement that looks at how are these national policies making sense at the local level," said Arjho Turner with Cobb County Sustainability in Richardson's district. "How are people getting engaged so that they know they're part of it?"

According to Brookhaven Mayor John Ernst, money in the infrastructure bill will help increase the number of the city's electric car stations, while a tax credit tucked into the Build Back Better Act is intended to entice more people to purchase electric vehicles.

During a time when Congress is considering major clean energy legislation, an annual renewables report from Environmental Georgia praises the state's efforts with solar energy and electric vehicles.

According to Environment Georgia, the state's officials have backed investments in electric battery manufacturing, which could have long term effects, while new technologies have also helped drive progress in clean energy.

From 2011 to 2020, Georgia ranked seventh in the nation for electric vehicle sales, electric charging stations, and solar capacity. Georgia's electric vehicle popularity was fueled by a state tax credit that expired six years ago.

Federal legislation investing in transit and emission-free school buses to help reduce pollution as well as promoting solar and renewable energy is needed to help reverse the damage to the planet, according to the organization.

"Clean Energy has exploded because of decades of research and public policies that have successfully incentivized the adoption and deployment of renewable technologies," renewable energy associate Jessica Wahl said. "And so while this report describes the dramatic growth of renewables, it also highlights that we still have a lot of work to do in terms of adopting the public policies that will bring us into a completely clean, renewable energy future."

Congresswoman Lucy McBath, a Marietta Democrat, is spending the week working to build on the momentum of passing the infrastructure bill that will provide Georgia with $1.4 billion in sustainable transportation investments and offer $135 million to accelerate electric vehicle capabilities.

"Every resident of metro Atlanta has a right to high-quality, regular, and dependable transportation options, and we must continue to make it easier, safer, and more sustainable to travel across our state," McBath said in a statement. "This bipartisan legislation helps us improve critical transportation for underserved residential areas, getting Americans back to work, connecting employees with employers, and ensuring our small businesses have access to the customers they need to grow and thrive."

Across the U.S., a portion of the $90 billion for public transit would allow operators to swap out 10,000 fossil fuel-powered buses for those that run on batteries or other low-emission energy.

Meanwhile, a range of clean energy and energy-efficient projects will be spread across the country primarily through $62 billion to be distributed by the U.S. Department of Energy.

The legislation dedicates $7.5 billion to create a nationwide network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations. Clean energy initiatives include $5 billion to replace thousands of diesel-powered school buses with electric buses. And $3.5 billion is set aside to reduce energy costs for low-income households.
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wouldn't this be the first step in Making America a Great place to live. Once Again
 
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I think that a return to not trying to break down tree cover by demographics would help make America great again.
 
when I was a child our Eastern Pennsylvania inner city had tree lined streets.
the trees died, were cut down and never replaced.

I cant for the life of me understand how this could be taken as a bad thing.
another failure / myth of , the private sector ...
 
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Trees are great. I bought one for my wife as a Christmas present. I'm all for planting them anywhere they aren't. I'm just not for making up silly terms like "environmental justice" in an effort to further the goals of identity politics race hustlers.
 
https://reason.com/2021/11/30/passing-the-spending-bill-could-doom-bidens-presidency/

Over half of voters disapprove of the way Biden is handling the economy, foreign policy, and his job as president. Similarly, inflation is among the top concerns for voters right now, and 52 percent of registered voters believe Biden is making inflation worse. The question poll respondents were asked is pretty telling: "Do you think Joe Biden's policies are making the inflation situation…Worse? Better? Or not making a difference at all?"

The keyword in that query is policies. Voters blame Biden's policies for current economic turmoil.

And while there is probably, as always, some muddled thinking on the part of some voters about exactly what Biden has done to mismanage the economy, it is not wrong to blame Biden and congressional Democrats for stoking inflation. The first major legislative act that Biden and Democrats in Congress took this year was to pass a deficit-funded $2 trillion coronavirus relief and economic stimulus bill that was much larger than what most economists were calling for, one that some economists—even some long associated with the Democratic Party, like Larry Summers—said would make inflation worse.

And here we are, the better part of a year later. Inflation has indeed accelerated and is likely to continue to accelerate in the near future. Combined with supply chain problems, this is causing Americans economic pain and frustration in their daily lives, pain that is highly visible in the prices at gas stations and supermarkets in the form of obviously higher prices for certain staples. Indeed, inflation has risen so rapidly that it has effectively destroyed this year's wage gains for workers. They're earning more—and they're still worse off.

Americans, in other words, have quite clear, quite obvious economic problems. And they wish that Biden was focused on policies specifically aimed at addressing the immediate economic problems they face: Echelon's poll finds that 72 percent of voters—including, notably, 58 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters—want Biden to prioritize inflation and supply chain issues over social spending.

Instead, Biden and Democratic leadership in Congress have spent most of the year relentlessly focused on passing a massive spending bill that, among other things, will give the IRS more money to poke around in people's finances, and tax methane emissions in a way that is all but certain to increase home heating costs. But at least when it's all done, there will be a "Women of Trucking Advisory Board" as part of an initiative aimed at "promoting women in the trucking workforce." Women may well be woefully underrepresented in trucking, and I for one am ready for an all-woman remake of Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top, but a meaningful solution to the supply chain crunch this is not.

Biden, in other words, is focused on legislative initiatives that would attempt to remedy non-problems that people aren't particularly worried about while ignoring the very real problems that already exist—problems that his policies, supported by Democrats in Congress, have helped exacerbate. If anything, Biden's spending plans could make those problems worse still, by throwing more federal spending into an already inflationary economy, and by diverting resources toward Democratic social and climate priorities rather than more pressing issues.

This was always a problem with Biden's broader economic agenda: It was a grab-bag of expensive, preexisting Democratic hobbyhorses—more money for unions, for already-bloated health care programs, for climate policies of dubious effectiveness—instead of a set of tailored and focused responses to the problems Americans are actually facing right now. And rather than turn his attention to the most pressing issues, upon entering office Biden dug in on the checklist he came in with, acting as if he represented a commanding public majority that had endorsed trillions of dollars worth of social and economic change.

 
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https://reason.com/2021/11/30/passing-the-spending-bill-could-doom-bidens-presidency/

Over half of voters disapprove of the way Biden is handling the economy, foreign policy, and his job as president. Similarly, inflation is among the top concerns for voters right now, and 52 percent of registered voters believe Biden is making inflation worse. The question poll respondents were asked is pretty telling: "Do you think Joe Biden's policies are making the inflation situation…Worse? Better? Or not making a difference at all?"

The keyword in that query is policies. Voters blame Biden's policies for current economic turmoil.

And while there is probably, as always, some muddled thinking on the part of some voters about exactly what Biden has done to mismanage the economy, it is not wrong to blame Biden and congressional Democrats for stoking inflation. The first major legislative act that Biden and Democrats in Congress took this year was to pass a deficit-funded $2 trillion coronavirus relief and economic stimulus bill that was much larger than what most economists were calling for, one that some economists—even some long associated with the Democratic Party, like Larry Summers—said would make inflation worse.

And here we are, the better part of a year later. Inflation has indeed accelerated and is likely to continue to accelerate in the near future. Combined with supply chain problems, this is causing Americans economic pain and frustration in their daily lives, pain that is highly visible in the prices at gas stations and supermarkets in the form of obviously higher prices for certain staples. Indeed, inflation has risen so rapidly that it has effectively destroyed this year's wage gains for workers. They're earning more—and they're still worse off.

Americans, in other words, have quite clear, quite obvious economic problems. And they wish that Biden was focused on policies specifically aimed at addressing the immediate economic problems they face: Echelon's poll finds that 72 percent of voters—including, notably, 58 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters—want Biden to prioritize inflation and supply chain issues over social spending.

Instead, Biden and Democratic leadership in Congress have spent most of the year relentlessly focused on passing a massive spending bill that, among other things, will give the IRS more money to poke around in people's finances, and tax methane emissions in a way that is all but certain to increase home heating costs. But at least when it's all done, there will be a "Women of Trucking Advisory Board" as part of an initiative aimed at "promoting women in the trucking workforce." Women may well be woefully underrepresented in trucking, and I for one am ready for an all-woman remake of Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top, but a meaningful solution to the supply chain crunch this is not.

Biden, in other words, is focused on legislative initiatives that would attempt to remedy non-problems that people aren't particularly worried about while ignoring the very real problems that already exist—problems that his policies, supported by Democrats in Congress, have helped exacerbate. If anything, Biden's spending plans could make those problems worse still, by throwing more federal spending into an already inflationary economy, and by diverting resources toward Democratic social and climate priorities rather than more pressing issues.

This was always a problem with Biden's broader economic agenda: It was a grab-bag of expensive, preexisting Democratic hobbyhorses—more money for unions, for already-bloated health care programs, for climate policies of dubious effectiveness—instead of a set of tailored and focused responses to the problems Americans are actually facing right now. And rather than turn his attention to the most pressing issues, upon entering office Biden dug in on the checklist he came in with, acting as if he represented a commanding public majority that had endorsed trillions of dollars worth of social and economic change.
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It never stops astounding me how out of touch DC and media is to most people

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acesfull86 said:
https://reason.com/2021/11/30/passing-the-spending-bill-could-doom-bidens-presidency/

Over half of voters disapprove of the way Biden is handling the economy, foreign policy, and his job as president. Similarly, inflation is among the top concerns for voters right now, and 52 percent of registered voters believe Biden is making inflation worse. The question poll respondents were asked is pretty telling: "Do you think Joe Biden's policies are making the inflation situation…Worse? Better? Or not making a difference at all?"

The keyword in that query is policies. Voters blame Biden's policies for current economic turmoil.

And while there is probably, as always, some muddled thinking on the part of some voters about exactly what Biden has done to mismanage the economy, it is not wrong to blame Biden and congressional Democrats for stoking inflation. The first major legislative act that Biden and Democrats in Congress took this year was to pass a deficit-funded $2 trillion coronavirus relief and economic stimulus bill that was much larger than what most economists were calling for, one that some economists—even some long associated with the Democratic Party, like Larry Summers—said would make inflation worse.

And here we are, the better part of a year later. Inflation has indeed accelerated and is likely to continue to accelerate in the near future. Combined with supply chain problems, this is causing Americans economic pain and frustration in their daily lives, pain that is highly visible in the prices at gas stations and supermarkets in the form of obviously higher prices for certain staples. Indeed, inflation has risen so rapidly that it has effectively destroyed this year's wage gains for workers. They're earning more—and they're still worse off.

Americans, in other words, have quite clear, quite obvious economic problems. And they wish that Biden was focused on policies specifically aimed at addressing the immediate economic problems they face: Echelon's poll finds that 72 percent of voters—including, notably, 58 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters—want Biden to prioritize inflation and supply chain issues over social spending.

Instead, Biden and Democratic leadership in Congress have spent most of the year relentlessly focused on passing a massive spending bill that, among other things, will give the IRS more money to poke around in people's finances, and tax methane emissions in a way that is all but certain to increase home heating costs. But at least when it's all done, there will be a "Women of Trucking Advisory Board" as part of an initiative aimed at "promoting women in the trucking workforce." Women may well be woefully underrepresented in trucking, and I for one am ready for an all-woman remake of Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top, but a meaningful solution to the supply chain crunch this is not.

Biden, in other words, is focused on legislative initiatives that would attempt to remedy non-problems that people aren't particularly worried about while ignoring the very real problems that already exist—problems that his policies, supported by Democrats in Congress, have helped exacerbate. If anything, Biden's spending plans could make those problems worse still, by throwing more federal spending into an already inflationary economy, and by diverting resources toward Democratic social and climate priorities rather than more pressing issues.

This was always a problem with Biden's broader economic agenda: It was a grab-bag of expensive, preexisting Democratic hobbyhorses—more money for unions, for already-bloated health care programs, for climate policies of dubious effectiveness—instead of a set of tailored and focused responses to the problems Americans are actually facing right now. And rather than turn his attention to the most pressing issues, upon entering office Biden dug in on the checklist he came in with, acting as if he represented a commanding public majority that had endorsed trillions of dollars worth of social and economic change.
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"Just .15 cents more at your 4th of July Barbeque we let you have"
 
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/permanent-build-back-better-act-could-cost-4-8-trillion

Last month, we estimated the Build Back Better Act in the House of Representatives would cost $4.9 trillion if made permanent and add $3 trillion to the debt if extensions were not offset. Based on CBO's score of the House-passed Build Back Better Act, this update of our prior analysis finds extensions would nearly double the cost of the bill from over $2.4 trillion to nearly $4.8 trillion. If all extensions were enacted without offsets, it would increase the deficit impact of the bill from $160 billion to $2.8 trillion.

The Build Back Better Act relies on a number of arbitrary sunsets and expirations to lower the official cost of the bill. These include extending the American Rescue Plan's Child Tax Credit (CTC) increase and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansion for a year, setting universal pre-K and child care subsidies to expire after six years, making the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansions available through 2025, delaying the requirement that businesses amortize research and experimentation (R&E) costs until 2026, and setting several other provisions – including targeted tax credits, increased Pell Grants, and school lunch programs – to expire prematurely.

Excluding changes to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, we estimate the Build Back Better Act would cost roughly $2.15 trillion as written. We estimate making all of these temporary policies permanent would cost over $2 trillion, nearly doubling the gross cost of the bill excluding SALT changes to $4.2 trillion through 2031.


 
acesfull86 said:
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/permanent-build-back-better-act-could-cost-4-8-trillion

Last month, we estimated the Build Back Better Act in the House of Representatives would cost $4.9 trillion if made permanent and add $3 trillion to the debt if extensions were not offset. Based on CBO's score of the House-passed Build Back Better Act, this update of our prior analysis finds extensions would nearly double the cost of the bill from over $2.4 trillion to nearly $4.8 trillion. If all extensions were enacted without offsets, it would increase the deficit impact of the bill from $160 billion to $2.8 trillion.

The Build Back Better Act relies on a number of arbitrary sunsets and expirations to lower the official cost of the bill. These include extending the American Rescue Plan's Child Tax Credit (CTC) increase and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansion for a year, setting universal pre-K and child care subsidies to expire after six years, making the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansions available through 2025, delaying the requirement that businesses amortize research and experimentation (R&E) costs until 2026, and setting several other provisions – including targeted tax credits, increased Pell Grants, and school lunch programs – to expire prematurely.

Excluding changes to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, we estimate the Build Back Better Act would cost roughly $2.15 trillion as written. We estimate making all of these temporary policies permanent would cost over $2 trillion, nearly doubling the gross cost of the bill excluding SALT changes to $4.2 trillion through 2031.


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that's really strange bc the president and Dem leaders who would never lie spent all summer saying it would not only cost zero dollars, but there would be no adds to the deficit.

really strange they may be lying maybe we should more critically examine things in the future
 
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that's really strange bc the president and Dem leaders who would never lie spent all summer saying it would not only cost zero dollars, but there would be no adds to the deficit.

really strange they may be lying maybe we should more critically examine things in the future
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Super weird. Maybe its Big Meat's fault.
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/586450-manchin-says-he-will-not-vote-for-build-back-better-this-is-a-no

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on "Fox News Sunday" that he will not vote for President Biden’s “mammoth” climate and social spending bill, essentially killing the White House's top legislative priority.

"I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation, I just can't. I tried everything humanly possible, I can't get there" he told host Bret Baier.

"You're done - this is a no," Baier said.

"This is a no, on this legislation," Manchin responded. "I have tried everything I know to do," he said, closing the door on Democratic hopes that he might be persuaded to change his mind.

He said he had worked “diligently” on the bill, meeting with Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other colleagues to find a way forward, but said he remains extremely concerned about inflation, the $29 trillion federal debt and a surge in new infections caused by the omicron COVID-19 variant.

“When you have these things coming at you the way they are right now, I’ve always said this, Bret, if I can’t go home to the people of West Virginia, I can’t vote for it,” he said.


 
My own words? Today is a great day for America. A (D) Senator saw through the phony accounting being pushed by his colleagues, recognized that a bill sold as "costing nothing" would actually add trillions to our national debt, and decided to put a stop to it. He realized that inflation is already choking everyday Americans, and this bill would've poured gasoline on the fire. Hopefully this represents the final death blow to the so-called BBB.
 
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My own words? Today is a great day for America. A (D) Senator saw through the phony accounting being pushed by his colleagues, recognized that a bill sold as "costing nothing" would actually add trillions to our national debt, and decided to put a stop to it. He realized that inflation is already choking everyday Americans, and this bill would've poured gasoline on the fire. Hopefully this represents the final death blow to the so-called BBB.
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Hopefully this represents the final death blow to the communist takeover of our government.
 
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acesfull86 said:
My own words? Today is a great day for America. A (D) Senator saw through the phony accounting being pushed by his colleagues, recognized that a bill sold as "costing nothing" would actually add trillions to our national debt, and decided to put a stop to it. He realized that inflation is already choking everyday Americans, and this bill would've poured gasoline on the fire. Hopefully this represents the final death blow to the so-called BBB.
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That wasn't so hard
 
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I wonder if the idiot leftists understand how unpopular BBB is when you explain to voters whats included?
 
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