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What is in President Biden's reduced spending proposal?
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    Biden's new Build Back Better plan invests big in climate and child care.
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    The administration called it "the largest effort to combat climate change in American history" and "the largest single investment in our clean energy economy in history." With the $555 billion investment, the White House says the United States would be on track for its goal of a 50%-52% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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    The revised $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan also includes a $400 billion investment in affordable child care and two years of free pre-K education. It would make permanent the expanded child tax credit for more than 35 million families. That credit of up to $300 a month per kid — enacted for 2021 as part of Biden's American Rescue Plan — has already lifted an estimated 3 million children out of poverty.
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    Proposals to invest billions more in free community college and paid family and medical leave — and to reduce the costs of prescription drugs through price negotiations — will not be part of this package.
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