Biden met at the
“A lot of folks refer to this as just social spending,” Biden said. “Well, I see it this way: The Build Back Better plan lowers prices for families and gets people working.”
The president stressed the benefits of child care subsidies and universal pre-kindergarten when talking with
Linebarger first emphasized the need to tackle climate change, but he said that childcare is a “significant burden" for the parents who work at his company and that it's clearly an issue that “needs to be addressed.”
It's unclear when
Five Democratic senators on Wednesday sent a letter calling for Biden to keep the expanded child tax credit in any legislation. The president has said he needs to pare down his proposal to get it through the
“After historic progress, it is unacceptable to return to a status quo in which children are America’s poorest residents,” they wrote. “Raising taxes on working families is the last thing we should do during a pandemic.”
“The point we’re at now is determining what components there are 50 votes for and that will hopefully include a big, big chunk of what the president has proposed,” she said.
“Without having the ability to have that supply chain in this country as well, that is going to hurt our ability to lead, whether it is in electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles,” Barra said. "These are key technologies for the future and it truly is a global race."
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