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One Name for Build Back Better Is ‘Infrastructure-Plus-Plus’
The sprawling plan needs a label. Here are nine—some not so nice.
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Words matter in politics. President Biden has insisted on calling the $1.9 trillion spending bill that’s nearing enactment a rescue plan, even though a lot of other people, including headline writers, have labeled it stimulus. Now the semantic wars are moving on to the forthcoming Build Back Better plan, which could entail even more spending. How Build Back Better gets labeled could affect perceptions and influence its chances of passage. So—what is this thing? Here are nine potential labels.