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On infrastructure, lofty ideas are colliding with congressional reality Author: Seung Min Kim, Marianna Sotomayor, Jeff Stein, Tony Romm, The Washington Post Updated: 2 hours ago Published 2 hours ago
President Joe Biden, fourth from left, Vice President Kamala Harris, top left, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, center right, meet with House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. Peter DeFazio Ore., second from left, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., second from right, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., bottom left, and other members of the House of Representatives in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 4, 2021, on infrastructure. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Vice Chair Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., is at right. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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WASHINGTON The House voted 384-38 Tuesday evening to rescind one of two scheduled Medicare cuts, sending the bill on to President Biden for his signature. Today the house meets on the heels of huge milestones for our country more than 180 million vaccine shots in American arms, and more than 150 million rescue checks in Americans bank accounts, said Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), chairman of the House Budget Committee. Today s legislation will ensure our healthcare providers who have been on the front lines of this pandemic are supported during this difficult time.
The measure addresses one of the two budget cuts the Medicare program is facing. One cut, part of the normal budget process, is a 2% or $18 billion cut in the projected Medicare budget under a process known as sequestration. Sequestration allows for prespecified cuts in projected agency budget increases if Congress can t agree on their own cuts. Medicare s budget had been slated fo
When President Joe Biden recently announced a $2.3 trillion spending plan, on the heels of the nearly $2 trillion bailout bill enacted in March, some Democrats in Washington complained. Their complaints: The price tag was not big enough, and the Washington power grab was not ambitious enough.
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U.S. President Joe Biden called for a more than $14 billion increase in climate change investments in fiscal year 2022, including a 10% increase in the Department of Energy s budget, as he seeks to decarbonize the U.S. power sector and broader economy.
The White House Office of Management and Budget released its fiscal year 2022 discretionary budget request to Congress on April 9. The proposal seeks to raise non-defense discretionary funding to $769 billion, up 16% from 2021 enacted levels. National defense programs would receive $753 billion, a 1.7% increase.
The request includes major investments to address climate change and boost federal research and development of clean energy technologies, priorities Biden has woven into his recent infrastructure proposal and efforts to reinvigorate the U.S. economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.