White House adviser Cedric Richmond said the administration will now focus on the passage of the $1.75 trillion social spending package after the House passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last week. “We need to get it done,” Richmond told Fox News on Sunday of the social spending package, which includes funding to expand social programs and “climate”-related programs. “We need to get it done now because if you look at the 17 Nobel Prize-winning economists, they said that it will ease inflationary pressures, help with the supply chain and invest in the human capital in this country all at one time,” Richmond said, without naming the economists during the segment. The House on Friday approved the Senate-passed infrastructure bill, with about a dozen Republican lawmakers joining nearly all Democrats to advance the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. The vote occurred following months of back-and-forth negotiations that …
White House Will Push Social Spending Package After Infrastructure Passage: Adviser
November 7, 2021
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