virginia, and other places around the country. and the party realized they had to be united. their individual concerns had to be met, and they were able to do it. speaker pelosi got these votes once again in a very difficult attempt to pass this massive legislation filled with democratic priorities, including more than half a trillion dollars for climate change initiatives, and family care provisions, the list goes on and on, chris. meantime, shannon pettypiece is at the white house for us and as is often the case for politics, maybe you can celebrate for a minute or two, but the reality still looms in the senate. talk about what you re hearing from folks at the white house now? reporter: well, and this was a victory the white house had hoped to get last night. they kept reporters here late in anticipation the president might make some remarks but of course finally getting that victory, as you alluded to, a long road still ahead, this has to get through the senate where senate joe
electric vehicles, solar panels, that sort of stuff. also tax credits for companies as well. there s a lot of family care provisions including free preschool. people are not supposed to pay more than 7% of their income on child care. there s an extension of the child tax cut. and what s interesting about this is that the child tax cut, it used to the poorest people usually were not able to access it because they did not pay taxes. well, in this extension, the poorest people will still be able to benefit from the child tax credit, and so this is something that is going to be a big boost democrats say for many poor families and even middle class families. this is a bill, there were some last-minute changes over the past couple weeks including the addition of two weeks of paid family leave. there was also an addition of immigration provisions. legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants.