It's twice as big, in real dollars, as the New Deal was. This can be the Congress that goes from 12 years of universal education to 14 years; the makes the largest investment in fighting climate change ever; that cuts what families pay for child care in half.
A few reasons BBB is getting slashed
• Biden is pursuing a New Deal agenda without New Deal majorities
• He has ~96% of Democrats but the other ~4% have veto power and are wielding it ruthlessly
• Dems never prioritized their policies, thus lacked a playbook for how to trim
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Good luck with that. There were only 122 million people living here then - a third of the US population today. It would be better if you would just say, "Yeah, we're mad as hell too." Roosevelt would have.
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