Education, Clean Energy, Housing Make the Cut in Biden Framework
- White House calls plan ‘historic’ despite reductions
- Medicare expansion limited to hearing, family leave out
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President Joe Biden is attempting to rally fractious Democrats around a whittled-down economic package that his administration is promoting as a monumental achievement for social spending and climate programs.
The $1.75 trillion package, which the White House on Thursday called “historic,” is half the size of a budget outline passed by the House and Senate in September in response to demands by moderates to reduce the price tag. Programs such as paid family leave and tuition-free community college didn’t make the cut, but the White House spent Thursday morning touting what the package funds.