Let's Make A Democratic Spending Deal

What A Day

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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After weeks of negotiations, President Biden announced his revamped Build Back Better plan, which includes approximately $1.85 trillion of investments to fight climate change, expand health care, create jobs and more. This plan was originally much much bigger but two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are the reasons Dems had to abandon some of the bigger provisions. And in headlines: big oil CEOs testified before Congress, the DOJ will pay $88 million to the victims’ families of the 2015 massacre at a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and a new criminal complaint alleges former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo of forcibly touching a female staff member. Show Notes: NY Times: “The World ‘Has Found a Way to Do This’: The U.S. Lags on Paid Leave” – https://nyti.ms/3mmRzA5 For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Friday, October 29th. I'm getting a snack.
0:08.4	And I'm Priyanka Erbindi and this is what a day where we are congratulating Mitt Romney
0:12.4	on being the last person to go as Ted Lasso is Halloween.
0:15.4	And if you don't know what we're talking about right now, just go on with your day.
0:19.1	Just enjoy it. Don't look it up.
0:20.3	Don't let him ruin that for you. Don't let him take away your joy.
0:31.1	On today's show, Congress grills big oil plus Facebook rebrands as meta.
0:36.4	But first, after weeks of negotiation, President Biden announced his revamped build back better plan yesterday.
0:43.3	After months of tough and thoughtful negotiations, I think we have an historic,
0:48.0	I know we have a historic economic framework. It's a framework that will create millions of jobs,
0:53.7	grow the economy, invest in our nation and our people.
0:58.2	It includes approximately $1.85 trillion of investments to fight climate change,
1:03.7	expand healthcare, create jobs and more.
1:06.9	Yeah, and we've been hearing about this plan for weeks, if not months,
1:10.0	as lawmakers have debated how much to spend and what to cover.
1:13.5	So let's give everybody a rundown of what actually made the cut in this revamped plan.
1:17.8	Yes, so it is quite a list, but I'm going to do my best to run you through the highlights
1:22.4	and what people are excited about.
1:24.9	So let's start with combating climate change, which is of existential importance to all of us
1:29.6	and our planet. So $550 billion are going towards clean energy investments and efforts to
1:36.0	combat climate change, including home energy and efficiency tax credits, rebates and credits for
1:41.6	US made electric vehicles. Princeton Energy expert Jesse Jenkins told the New Yorker that these
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