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Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the budget request, the first of Mr. Biden’s presidency, calls for total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031, with deficits running above $1.3 trillion throughout the next decade. The growth is driven by Mr. Biden’s two-part agenda to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure and expand the social safety net, along with other planned increases in discretionary spending.
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Mr. Biden plans to finance his agenda by raising taxes on corporations and high earners, and the documents show budget deficits shrinking in the 2030s. By 2028, when Mr. Biden could be finishing a second term in office, the government would be collecting more tax revenue as a share of the economy than at almost any point in the last century.
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With Democrats in control of the House and Senate, Mr. Biden faces some of the best odds in recent history of getting much of his [budget request] approved. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has said he would not back as high a corporate tax rate as the budget proposes.