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THE LANDSCAPE FACING BIDEN: President-elect
Joe Biden is facing pressure to go around regular order and use partisan tools to pass his initial priorities through Congress.
In a primetime speech yesterday, he unveiled a $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a health and economic relief-oriented package.
But more interesting for our purposes, Biden also promised to lay out a Build Back Better Recovery Plan before a joint session of Congress next month with historic investments in infrastructure and manufacturing, innovation, research and development, and clean energy.”