John,
I represent over 790,000 people in Congress, but my toughest constituents are my kids: Betsy, Luke, and Paul. Like many of my constituents, they’ve been hearing a lot about the two bills that are a part of Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda. Here’s a conversation I had the other day with my 13 year old son, Paul, who asked what the deal is with these bills. Here’s what I said:
We have this big to-do list on infrastructure: fixing roads, bridges, things like that. But people need a lot more than that to be successful. So that’s why we have this second bill (called reconciliation), which will address all of the other things families need: affordable child care, elder care, health care, housing, paid leave, and action on climate. All of these things, both improving infrastructure and really supporting American families, are important.
Paul’s response was, “Well, I see a lot of roads, but no affordable child care.”
And he’s totally right! Our country has literally never made investments in things like child care—which has been bad for families and bad for our economy.
At the end of the day, these bills shouldn’t be about a press conference you can hold, they should be about people’s lives.
Onward,
Katie
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