John,
After months of delays and negotiations, the Build Back Better Act finally passed the House on Friday. And while the $1.75 trillion legislation doesn’t go as big as we’d initially hoped, it remains a long-overdue and needed bill that will begin to address many of the challenges working families face every single day and make our communities healthier, safer, and more prosperous.
In a moment, we’re going to ask you to make a contribution to support our organizing to ensure the Senate passes the Build Back Better Act ASAP. But first, we wanted to catch you up to speed on some important policies we won in this version of the bill.
If the Senate were to send the Build Back Better Act to President Biden’s desk, we would see immediate investment in urgent priorities including:
🌍 The largest federal expenditure on climate in U.S. history, including tax incentives and other programs that will address the climate emergency by expanding access to clean energy for working families, curbing fossil fuel emissions, and creating a Civilian Climate Corps to create green jobs in communities most impacted by climate change.
🏠 The largest expansion in affordable housing ever, including the construction of more than one million new rental and single-family homes as well as housing vouchers.
🏫 Free universal preschool for all three and four-year-olds, which would usher in the largest expansion of public education since the establishment of public high schools.
🧒🏾 A one-year extension of the child tax credit, continuing monthly payments of $250 or $300 per child to the vast majority of parents raising children in America.
🍼 Four weeks paid family and medical leave, the first national investment in paid leave in American history.
💊 Reducing premiums and expanding Medicare coverage to include hearing, as well as limiting Big Pharma profits and capping the cost of life-saving drugs like insulin.
🩺 Affordable home care for elderly and disabled folks and improved wages for providers.
Big Pharma, Corporate America, and Wall Street fought tooth and nail to destroy this legislation, John. But progressives in the House worked together, fought back, and held the line to save the bill.
Now it’s up to the Senate to determine whether Democrats will deliver for the American people and pass the Build Back Better Act. And we can’t let special interests or corporate Democrats like Senators Manchin and Sinema get in our way. Can you make a grassroots contribution of $5 to WFP today so we can keep up the fight to ensure this legislation finally becomes law?
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We’re not going back.
In solidarity,
All of us at the Working Families Party
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