A Series of talks was held to strike off the clean energy plan and free community college from the proposed new bill. Striking off a clean energy bill will bring about severe effects as foreign countries expect Biden’s support in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Congressional Democrats have almost come to terms with President Joe BidenJoe Biden Firm On Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan‘seconomic plan to cut off free community college to trim the cost. The free community college plan ate up 109 billion of the yearly financial plans of the nation. Joe Biden is planning to expand the social safety net and control climate change. He also recommended 1.75 trillion to 1.9 trillion for his plans in his meetings with the lawmakers of the democratic party. Furthermore, the party attempts to make every effort to reduce its earlier plan of 3.5 trillion from the reconciliation bill. The Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep Pramila Jaypal confirmed the news.
The Californian Democrat Jimmy Gomez expressed his concern over the striking off free community college plan and added that he was one among others who studied in a community college. The clean energy project joined the crop off-list after stiff opposition from Manchin, another democrat representative. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Biden wanted to include it in the massive expense package. It is a 150-billion-dollar plan that would cut down greenhouse gas emissions and pay money to those utility companies that use clean energy to generate electricity in the place of fossil fuel.
Scrapping off the clean energy plan from the bill would have an ominous effect on the negotiation in the Glasgow climatic change conference from 31st October to 14th November this year. The internal political opposition on including the clean energy plan has raised doubts in the minds of foreign nations because he told them that he will stick to this word of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030. Without a clean energy plan, he can’t fulfil the promise.
The Democrats are likely to bring changes in the child tax credit that as the original bill proposed the extension of child tax credit till 2025, contrary to the proposed new bill, which allows an extension only up to a year. It would save billions as a one-year extension would cost only 106.5 billion, whereas four years would cost 556 billion dollars. The bill has made a provision of 250 billion dollars for health care expenditure, and the final bill would be somewhere around 1.9trillion to 2.2 trillion. The initial bill proposed 3.5 trillion, from which it is scraping close to 1.3 trillion aa conformed by Jayapal. The clean electricity performance program is another item receiving democrats’ attention, and Universal kindergarten are two agendas the democratic leaders will consider.
Democrats are striving hard to gain votes another time and have cut costs to impress Manchin and Sen Kyrstin Sinema. The President held a series of meetings to impress progressive and centrists, and they are acceding to the plans gradually. Senate majority leader Chuck Scummer said that he wishes that the series of meetings would bear fruit, and the bill is most likely to be finalized soon. Schumer and Pelosi said they hope the Senate will pass a one trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill with a social safety net and climate plan before 30th September. They also expressed their doubt about democrats not able to chalk out a plan by then.
The democratic party will approve surface transportation funding along with the social safety net legislation. The progressives frowned at introducing one and dropping the other, and the party acceded to their suggestion of accepting both in the proposed plan.
