What’s in the plan for health care?

Senior Biden administration officials have characterized the plan’s health-care elements as the biggest expansion of affordable care in a decade, predicting the changes would extend coverage to 7 million people. Highlights include: [ Read more ]

What’s in the plan for education?

Some of the most ambitious and expensive plans seek to ease the financial burdens facing millions of American families, particularly low-income parents with children. [ Read more ]

What’s in the plan for climate?

The Biden administration aims to secure $555 billion in spending to address climate change , an amount the White House says makes the bill the biggest clean-energy investment in the nation’s history. [ Read more ]

What’s in the plan for taxes?

The Biden administration says the plan is financed in full. But the reality is more complicated. An official analysis from the Congressional Budget Office finds it could add $367 billion to the deficit over the next decade, however, Democrats note that their official estimate does not include other revenue raisers that cover the entire tranche of spending. Among the most critical revenue raisers: The House bill also includes the temporary repeal of the $10,000 cap on what state and local taxpayers can deduct off their federal taxes, a provision enacted by Republicans in their 2017 tax law. Initially, the White House had hoped to raise even more money by ratcheting up rates on corporations and wealthy Americans, a move that would have unwound the tax cuts imposed under President Donald Trump in 2017. [ Read more ]

How does the plan change the child tax credit?

The bill seeks to build on a large expansion of the safety for families with children that was a landmark element of Biden’s stimulus that passed in March. [ Read more ]

How does the plan affect infrastructure?

The law seeks to add more money for infrastructure, even after Biden signed into law a sweeping bipartisan infrastructure bill earlier this month. [ Read more ]

What’s in the plan for elder care?

After the the coronavirus pandemic emphasized the difficulties facing seniors as they age, the plan seeks to make a significant investment in helping aging Americans in the latter years of their lives, especially those who can’t care for themselves. [ Read more ]

What’s in the plan for housing?

The legislation makes what is widely considered the largest infusion of federal funding for housing in modern history. [ Read more ]

What’s in the plan for paid family leave?

House Democrats passed the first national paid family and medical leave program as part of their $2 trillion package. [ Read more ]

What’s in the plan for immigration?

The reconciliation bill would create the largest mass-legalization program for undocumented immigrants in U.S. history, but it falls short of a path to U.S. citizenship. [ Read more ]

How the plan affects the debt

An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office found that the bill would result in net increase in the deficit totaling $367 billion over the next decade . But the estimate did not include the full savings that could be achieved from some of the Democrats’ revenue-raising provisions, including a new plan to empower the Internal Revenue Service to recapture unpaid federal taxes. The White House has estimated that IRS enforcement alone could capture roughly $400 billion in additional revenue, while the CBO estimated a more modest $207 billion. Dan Diamond, Amy Goldstein, Dino Grandoni, Michael Laris, Laura Meckler, Tik Root, Rachel Roubein, Rachel Siegel, and Jeff Stein contributed to this report.

Economy

A guide to all the ways the House spending bill would affect America

Climate, taxes, immigration and other major provisions in the spending bill, explained

By Tony Romm

Updated November 19, 2021 at 9:48 a.m. EST|Published October 28, 2021 at 10:48 a.m. EDT

House Democrats on Friday morning passed a more than $2 trillion bill to overhaul the country’s health care, climate, education and tax laws, moving beyond months of disputes between liberals and moderates that have stalled President Biden’s economic agenda.

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The legislation builds off a framework that Biden unveiled to party lawmakers and includes new spending to enhance child care, provide free prekindergarten, combat climate change and advance a slew of tax benefits that chiefly aid low-income Americans.

But the bill omits many of Democrats’ top priorities, a reflection of the party’s difficult work to scale back a package once valued at $3.5 trillion. It now moves to the Senate, where it may face further cuts.

What follows is a guide to the legislation, one of the most significant overhauls of domestic policy in generations.

What is in the Build Back

Better Act

House Democrats’ $2.4T plan for health care, climate, education and immigration

Affordable child

care $270 billion

Child tax

credit $190B

Clean energy and

climate resilience

$235B

Climate-related

tax breaks $325B

Paid family and

medical leave $205B

Universal

pre-K

$110B

Raise state and local tax

deduction cap $275B

Affordable

housing $175B

Immigration reform $110B

ACA health

insurance

premiums

$120B

Home- and

community-

based services

$150B

Other $260B

Note: Other includes spending on higher education,

the workforce, Medicare hearing and tax changes,

as well as other spending

Source: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

ALYSSA FOWERS/THE WASHINGTON POST

What is in the Build Back Better Act

House Democrats’ $2.4 trillion plan for health care, climate, education and immigration

Affordable child

care $270 billion

Child tax

credit $190B

Clean energy and

climate resilience

$235B

Climate-related

tax breaks $325B

Paid family and

medical leave $205B

Universal

pre-K

$110B

Raise state and local tax

deduction cap $275B

Affordable housing $175B

Immigration reform $110B

ACA health

insurance

premiums

$120B

Home- and

community-

based services

$150B

Other $260B

Note: Other includes spending on higher education, the

workforce, Medicare hearing and tax changes, as well as

other spending

Source: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

ALYSSA FOWERS/THE WASHINGTON POST

What is in the Build Back Better Act

House Democrats’ $2.4 trillion plan to address health care, climate, education and immigration

Affordable child care

$270 billion

Child tax credit

$190B

Clean energy and climate resilience

$235B

Climate-related tax breaks

$325B

Paid family and medical leave

$205B

Universal

pre-kindergarten

$110B

Raise state and local tax deduction cap

$275B

Affordable housing

$175B

Immigration

reform

$110B

Affordable Care Act

premium tax credits

$120B

Medicaid home- and

community-based services

$150B

Other

$260B

Note: Other includes spending on higher education, the workforce, Medicare hearing and tax changes,

as well as other spending

Source: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

ALYSSA FOWERS/THE WASHINGTON POST

A guide to all the ways the House spending bill would affect America

Climate, taxes, immigration and other major provisions in the spending bill, explained

Biden’s Build Back Better spending bill