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House Democrats managed a big win Friday, passing their roughly $1.75 trillion social and climate spending package. Not a single Republican supported it. The social spending measure would generate the largest expansion to the social safety net in 50 years and contains $555 billion for climate and clean energy investments.
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It would reduce the cost of some prescription drugs, extend the child tax credit, provide universal pre-kindergarten for 3-and 4-year olds, allow four weeks of paid family and medical leave, build affordable housing, expand Medicare coverage, create "clean energy" jobs.
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Since congressional Democrats plan to pass the measure through reconciliation -- a lengthy budget process that would not require any Republican support [in the Senate]. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the total Democratic package would add $160 billion to the national deficit over the next 10 years.