By Susan Jones | April 28, 2021 | 10:39am EDT
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(CNSNews.com) - The Biden White House on Wednesday released a 15-page fact sheet on the American Families Plan, which President Biden plans to discuss in his first speech to a COVID-limited, joint session of Congress tonight.
The American Families Plan ($1.8 trillion) follows Biden s American Jobs Plan ($2.5 trillion) and his American Rescue Plan ($1.9 trillion, already passed) the three of which, combined, would total an estimated $6.2 trillion.
But according to the White House fact sheet, It is not enough to restore where we were prior to the pandemic. We need to build a stronger economy that does not leave anyone behind.
Biden’s American Families Plan Ends ‘End of Welfare’
WASHINGTON Ahead of his first address to a joint session of Congress, on April 28, President Joe Biden rolled out his third spending proposal, the American Families Plan, which, according to liberals, would be a “great achievement” if passed by Congress.
Opponents, however, criticize Biden’s massive spending plan, calling it the largest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society programs of the 1960s.
In his first address to Congress, Biden touted his new $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, calling it a “once-in-a-generation investment in our families and our children” to win the “competition for the future.”
Today, President Biden announced the American Families Plan, an investment in our kids, our families, and our economic future.
In March, the President signed into law the American Rescue Plan, which continues to provide immediate relief to American families and communities. Approximately 161 million payments of up to $1,400 per person have gone out to households, schools are reopening, and 100 percent of Americans ages 16 and older are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. The Rescue Plan is projected to lift more than five million children out of poverty this year, cutting child poverty by more than half. While too many Americans are still out of work, we are seeing encouraging signs in the labor market, as businesses begin to rehire and some of the hardest hit sectors begin to reopen.
The White House
On his first day in office, President Biden signed an Executive Order directing the whole of the federal government to advance equity and racial justice. Today, the President announced a historic new set of investments to deliver on his vision of a more equitable America through the American Families Plan. The American Families Plan will help restore the promise of America for communities who have been left behind and locked out of opportunity-investing in teachers and students, empowering workers and their families, and reimagining a tax code that rewards work over wealth. By extending and building upon the provisions of the American Rescue Plan, the American Families Plan would lift more than 10 million people out of poverty in 2022. This means a 29 percent reduction in Black poverty, a 31 percent reduction in Latino poverty, and a 15 percent reduction in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander poverty, relative to the projected poverty rate for 2022.
$1,400 Stimulus Checks Were Just a Start. Biden Wants to Go Far Bigger.
Biden’s American Families Plan won’t come until after Congress hammers out a massive infrastructure bill, here is a look at how families could benefit from the package if it gets passed.
President Joe Biden gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday that outlined his vision for sweeping changes to the government’s spending, arguing that the expansion would create jobs, reduce poverty and provide American families with more relief until the pandemic is over.
“We need to make a once-in-a-generation investment in our families and our children,” Biden said. “A once-in-a-generation investment in America itself.”