They can use the savings from provisions that will likely fall out of the bill in the Senate to make some remaining programs permanent.
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What You Might Have Missed in the Build Back Better Bill
The bill is teeming with hundreds of programs, which in some cases crowded out the bigger priorities.
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What’s in the Build Back Better Framework
It has its selling points. But it doesn’t appear to meet the test of permanent, hassle-free, and meaningful.
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Democrats Abandon Middle Class on Build Back Better Resolution
It’s part of a disturbing trend that leaves out an important segment of voters from federal benefit programs.
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What If Build Back Better Builds Back Worse?
Joe Manchin’s prescriptions for the Biden bill in some cases even fall short of the status quo.
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The Dwindling Choices on Build Back Better
Democrats can cut programs, tighten expiration dates, or count tax cuts and spending separately. But so far they’re just posturing and fighting.
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Infrastructure Summer: The Sophie’s Choice of the Reconciliation Bill
Democrats may have to decide whether to do a few things well or a bunch of things not so well.
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Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better
Hundreds of billions of dollars are scheduled for industries private equity dominates. Advocates want to make sure workers and families benefit, not financiers.
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The Child Tax Credit: A Political and Policy Triumph
As Congress begins debating budget reconciliation, the case grows for making the credit permanent—and altering outmoded budget rules to get that done.
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The Government Provided Child Care in World War II. We Need It Again.
Women worked then, women work now. It’s time for national child care—permanently.
