Passing the Build Back Better plan is not about giving women extra benefits, it is about remedying inequities, levinsonjessica writes.
A failure to pass Build Back Better would quickly follow Biden signing a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The. This is no surprise, men currently hold 90 percent of infrastructure jobs. That’s not to say the infrastructure package is bad law; it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t spend government money on jobs that will be held predominantly by men. It means that the passage of the infrastructure bill would make the impact of not passing Build Back Better more glaring.
There is not just a small separation between Democrats and Republicans on the Build Back Better plan. There is a fault line no senator appears ready to cross. Well, except Manchin. If one Republican senator voted in favor of the plan, Manchin’s vote wouldn’t be needed. But none will.what happened in the House of Representatives when that legislative body passed the Build Back Better plan. Every Democrat but one voted in favor of it; every Republican voted against it.
Manchin reportedly told his colleagues that he thought poor parents would use their child tax credit payments on drugs, not their children. And yet, here we are. Democrats control the White House, the Senate and the House. The Build Back Better plan is supported by all but two Democrats who are federally elected representatives. And that is not enough.
How can one Senate Democrat thwart the will of almost every other Democratic lawmaker? Because the Senate is, and was designed to be,
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