it changes people s lives. a whole range of things that are game changers for ordinary folks. when you sit down at the kitchen table at the end of the month, you ll be able to pay a whole hell of a lot more bills. plus disaster and death in kentucky. the president just landing there, pledging the federal government will help the state recover. and documentary evidence of a potential trump crime. a new picture shows a photo of a toilet stuffed with white house documents. president biden the bill cleared the senate sunday and is due for a house vote this week. it included some concessions, a major to cap the cost of insulin stripped out of the final bill. a minimum tax on large corporations was watered down. but the substance of the final product is hugely significant. giant first-time investments in climate protections and long-sought changes to how americans pay for health care and their prescription drugs. step back and look at the long arc and the president s legi
this legislation provides $369 billion in new climate spending, which the white house says should help cut u.s. green there s house emissions by half by the end of this decade. the bill includes new initiatives on corporate taxes and drug price controls. now, if it becomes law, it will join a host of major legislative achievements for the president ahead of the midterms, including bipartisan investment in the country s infrastructure and manufacturing sectors. cnn joe johns is in eastern kentucky following the president. joe, what should we expect to hear from the president? reporter: well, you know, he is here, victor, in his role as consoler in chief, but if his previous remarks today were any indication, he s also promising that the government is going to stick around and help the people of eastern kentucky see this through to the other side. they ve got quite a lot of work to do. the president is now expected to get a tour of some of the damage that we saw here in easte
almost nothing, joe biden is on a roll legislatively and on the national security front. todd: alexandria hoff live from washington with the latest. alexandria: even senator bernie sanders is questioning the name saying will have minimal impact. senate majority leader chuck chuck schumer disagrees. i would put in one word, persistence. alexandria: he calls it one of the defining feats of the 21st century. the climate healthcare and tax focus bill included 16 hours of vote-arama. democratss spent a year in negotiation, ending up with narrower adaptation of the build back better bill, inflation reduction act, they call it. 369 billion to climate, minimum tax raising $313 billion in 10 years, democrats expect to add 124 billion by bolstering i.r.s. tax inforcements. democratss government work for families again and this is what this bill does, period. republicans say the end of the sentence is not entirely true there. daniels stated this, democrats will pay the price i
doing important things always does. melanie, i hope you weren t up all night following these twists and turns. getting this bill out of the senate, they ran into some head winds and rocks along the shore in the name of senator kyrsten sinema. how did it play out? as chuck schumer put it, it was a bump on the road. there was some drama before this bill got to the finish line. senator kyrsten sinema was concerned about the 15% corporate minimum tax, impacting small businesses. so she joined in on a republican amendment to address that issue. but it also included an extension of the state and local tax deduction. schumer was told some democrats would not vote for the final bill if those changes were in there. so behind the scenes, democrats were scrambling to come one a solution to prevent this deal from falling apart. they came up with letting sinema support that amendment and added in a different way to pay for the changes. that is the reality of a 50-50 senate. they needed
we stand strong with our muslim community. be vigilant and report anything you see. e veil will not prevail. a fourth set of human remains have now been in lake mead s receding waters. we have to identify the victim, and that s what we re trying to do at this point. and actor anne heche now said to be in stable condition after her car crashes into an l.a. house, narrowly missing a person inside. she was in the house at the time, and the car stopped like two feet away from where she was sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs and a historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats finally pass the landmark legislation that they have chased for more than a year. it took months of negotiations an exhaustive all-nighter of whirlwind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj s are 50, the nays