Climate Change Became the Largest Part of Biden Spending Bill

[AZProgressive]

WASHINGTON — Climate has emerged as the single largest category in President Biden’s new framework for a huge spending bill, placing global warming at the center of his party’s domestic agenda in a way that was hard to imagine just a few years ago.

As the bill was pared down from $3.5 trillion to $1.85 trillion, paid family leave, free community college, lower prescription drugs for seniors and other Democratic priorities were dropped — casualties of negotiations between progressives and moderates in the party. But $555 billion in climate programs remained.

It was unclear on Thursday if all Democrats will support the package, which will be necessary if it is to pass without Republican support in a closely divided Congress. Progressive Democrats in the House and two pivotal moderates in the Senate, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, did not explicitly endorse the president’s framework. But Mr. Biden expressed confidence that a deal was in sight.

If enacted, it would be the largest action ever taken by the United States to address climate change. And it would enshrine climate action in law, making it harder to be reversed by a future president.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/climate/climate-change-framework-bill.html

[hunter]

1. If we don't quit fossil fuels now billions of people will suffer and die.

Citizens of the U.S.A. included.

If we, the U.S.A., could quit fossil fuels as a nation the world would be beating a path to our doorstep to buy and adopt the technologies and social innovations by which we accomplished it.

[moondust]

2. No doubt that's the part

the President wanted to get passed before leaving for Europe so he could show it to COP26. I'm sure the Europeans with their more complex multi-party systems can easily understand that it only takes one or two lousy Senators to hold up everything in an evenly divided U.S. Senate.