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The Build Back Better Act Must Adjust to Address Inflation Concerns
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With inflation rising to its highest levels in over 30 years, Democrats must make sure they don’t exacerbate the problem. But the Build Back Better bill currently being considered by Congress would pour roughly $200 billion of deficit-financed fuel on the fire in its first year alone. Even worse, the bill threatens to turn potentially transformative policies into something temporary that angers voters and returns Republicans to power.
The solution isn’t to abandon President Biden’s agenda. There’s still time for Democrats to give priority to a few key programs in a focused and sustainably financed “kids and climate” bill, like the moderate New Democrat Coalition and many others have long advocated doing.
Sen. Joe Manchin and House moderates do their progressive colleagues a favor by demanding a bill that is fully funded without shell games and budget gimmicks. Pivoting to such a bill would shield Democrats from inflation risks and allow them to make permanent progressive policies that otherwise might vanish.
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by Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center
for Funding America's Future
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PPI Executive Director Lindsay Mark Lewis: PPI Attends Signing Ceremony for President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
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PPI Director of Health Care Arielle Kane: Telehealth was a godsend during the pandemic; Congress should keep the innovation going
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Director of PPI's Center for New Liberalism Colin Mortimer: The House's SALT Cap Proposal Is Bad Policy and Bad Politics
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PPI Chief Economist Dr. Michael Mandel: Important political and economic forces can limit how often the cannons can be shot
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The Washington Post: Inflation puts White House on defensive as Manchin raises concerns about new spending ([link removed])
Ben Ritz, director of the Center for Funding America’s Future, a D.C. think tank, cited concerns that the Build Back Better agenda would add significantly to next year's deficit because money for new programs would be spent before the taxes to pay for them could be collected.
Politico: Scoop: HHS’ next effort to boost Covid-19 testing ([link removed])
FIRST IN PULSE: PPI, AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY BACK TELEHEALTH EXPANSION — The left-leaning Progressive Policy Institute is teaming up with conservative group Americans for Prosperity to call for an expansion of telehealth services, publishing a report today that argues remote care can “dramatically expand health care access without raising costs on taxpayers.”
The New York Times: The White House Says Its Plans Will Slow Inflation. The Big Question Is: When? ([link removed])
“The spending is designed to go to the people who are more likely to spend it than to save it,” said Ben Ritz, the director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Center for Funding America’s Future. But more than any specific program, “the bigger inflationary issue is the math.”
The Guardian: Mung beans, bunnies and the Muppets: PM’s green rhetoric ‘insulting and divisive’ ([link removed])
Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton-era White House climate adviser, now with the Progressive Policy Institute thinktank in Washington DC, says the UK performed well logistically and diplomatically, but that Johnson’s role was always going to be limited by the realities of geopolitics. “Realistically, Johnson himself was never going to be the key negotiator or creator of innovative diplomatic or technical breakthroughs. The US, China, India, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and a few others – these are the nations where policy positions have played the largest roles, as usual.”
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PPI Director of Health Care Arielle Kane speaks with Americans for Prosperity's Charlie Katebi to discuss their bipartisan report – which found that over the duration of the pandemic, the costs of telehealth care fell, suggesting that in a post-pandemic world telehealth could help increase access to medical care without increasing costs.
What's been going on with the US and global supply chains? PPI's Ed Gresser joins the podcast to discuss supply chain disruptions, how the supply chain was impacted by the COVID pandemic, how to make our supply chains more resilient, and what the vision for US trade policy should be moving forward.
** Don't Miss This PPI Event
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Reinventing America's Schools Project hosts: STEM Education in a Post-COVID World
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Don't Miss this Event on STEM:
PPI's Reinventing America's Schools project hosted
a webinar on STEM education and math recovery in America’s public schools post-COVID.
Panelists discussed strategies for programmatic and policy success to close achievement gaps in math and STEM education exacerbated during the COVID pandemic.
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Don't Miss This PPI Report
NEW: Telehealth Saves Money and Lives: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
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From PPI Director of Health Care Arielle Kane:
A new bipartisan study by PPI and Americans for Prosperity confirms a promising trend toward cost savings for patients who use a combination of in-person and telehealth services – a result that should give lawmakers confidence to extend the telehealth provisions of the public health emergency rather than letting them expire.
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