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Welcome back to today explained. I'm Sean Ramos from If It's Your First Time Joining

Us. Stop listening to this episode and pull up yesterdays. It's titled Can the Democrats Take

the Senate? For those of you who heard it, you'll recall the answer is maybe what one seemed

implausible is now looking quite possible. And we ended the conversation with our colleague,

Ellen Nielsen, on the question of what Joe Biden would do with majorities in the House and the

Senate. She said he's got a new deal style agenda for these United States. Today, we're gonna

break down that agenda with another colleague, the host of Vox's Future Perfect Podcast, Dylan Matthews.

We started with the name of this Biden new deal. It's heavy on the eliteration.

He has a big policy agenda that they're calling Build Back Better. In order to make the

challenges today, we can't just build back the way things were before. We have to build back better.

That is Forepronged, but it's basically investing a whole lot of money and a whole lot of things.

Let's dive right into it. What are the Foreprongs? So the Foreprongs are number one clean energy,

number two caregiving, number three made in America and made in all of America. They like to emphasize.

And Prong number four is racial equity, and closing the racial wealth gap.

Okay, so wildly ambitious. Let's break them down one by one, starting with Planck one,

clean energy. And we spoke to our colleague, David Roberts, a bit about this, but this is essentially

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