What Will Survive Negotiations In Biden's Trillion-Plus Dollar Social Programs Bill?

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The White House continues to negotiate with Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona over the president's social programs package. Core climate and community college provisions are on the chopping block, but the bill is still expected to come in at well over a trillion dollars.

This episode: demographics and culture correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:28.6	Hello, this is the NPR Politics podcast.
0:31.3	I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, I cover demographics and culture.
0:33.9	I'm dear Drew Walsh, I cover Congress.
0:35.8	And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.
0:39.0	And today we are talking about the Democrats' big spending bill they're trying to pass.
0:42.9	Now we've talked in the past about why President Joe Biden wasn't more visible in the negotiations
0:48.7	over this multi-trillion-dollar package.
0:51.5	But in the last few weeks, that has changed.
0:53.2	Joe Biden has taken a much more visible role in meeting with lawmakers.
0:56.8	Now, as for what's in the package itself, the starting point was a $3.5 trillion bundle
1:02.5	of policy programs, a whole mess of things, since then a lot has changed.
1:06.8	And of course, it's worth saying that this is different, but of course, linked to the
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