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House Democrats voted to deliver a huge win for the American people today by passing President Biden’s wildly popular Build Back Better Act.
This transformational legislation will make a real impact on Americans’ lives, as it lowers prescription drug costs, significantly expands affordable health care, delivers universal pre-k, provides millions of middle-class families and workers a significant tax cut, and makes game-changing investments to bring down costs, putting people’s money back into their own pockets.
The Build Back Better Act also marks the largest effort to combat climate change in American history, delivering cleaner environments, creating good-paying manufacturing jobs, lowering energy costs, and restoring the U.S. as a world leader in addressing the climate crisis.
Extremist House Republicans overwhelmingly voted “NO” on this transformational legislation that a majority of the American people support, and that will make tangible and positive differences in the everyday lives of voters.
The Build Back Better Act’s historic provisions include:
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The most transformative investment in children and caregiving in generations, delivering universal pre-k for more than six million children and ensuring no middle-income families pay more than 7% of their income on child care
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The largest investment in affordable housing in American history, including the construction and improvement of more than 1 million affordable homes, boosting the nation’s housing supply and reducing price pressures for renters and homeowners
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Providing 39 million families a major tax cut by extending the expanded Child Tax Credit
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The biggest expansion of affordable health care in a decade, reducing premiums for more than 9 million Americans and delivering health care coverage to up to 4 million uninsured people
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The largest effort to combat climate change in American history that will ensure we drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions between 50 and 52 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2030
“Voters sent President Biden and Congressional Democrats into office for us to deliver real results, and that’s exactly what we’ve done,” said DCCC Chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. “House Democrats refused to let extremist Republicans get in the way of this historic legislation that’s going to transform American lives for the better. From today until next November, we’re going to make sure voters know it was Democrats who delivered affordable health care, reduced prices, and millions of jobs, while the GOP tried to block these wins from the American people.”
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