Leading GOP figures eviscerated Senate Democrats for pushing through a package that would spend on energy and health care while raising taxes.
that would spend on energy and health care while raising corporate taxes with the GOP chair warning midterms would be painful for President Biden’s party.
The bill would put close to $400 billion into environmental initiatives while also extending expiring subsidies for 13 million people seeking affordable health insurance. It will also cap out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors on Medicare to $2,000 yearly. “Democrats have proven over and over they simply do not care about middle-class families’ priorities,” McConnell said . “They have spent 18 months proving that. They just spent hundreds of billions of dollars to prove it again.”contribute to inflation when they passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan last year and “returned to their same tired playbook to raise taxes, spend more money, and expand the size of government.”AP/J.
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