" the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution includes:
A civilian climate corps
Debt relief
Environmental justice investments in clean water affordability and access, healthy ports, and climate equity
Investments in clean vehicles
Paid Family and Medical Leave
ACA expansion extension and filling the Medicaid Coverage Gap
Health equity (maternal, behavioral, and racial justice health investments)
State and local tax (SALT) tax deduction relief which primarily benefits wealthy, blue states
Tax “fairness” for high-income individuals, or those who are making more than $400,000 per year
Universal Pre-K for 3- and 4-year olds
Electrifying the federal vehicle fleet (USPS and non-USPS)
Lawful permanent status for qualified immigrants or amnesty for illegal aliens
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which 19 Senate Republicans voted for, also contains many leftist carveouts. This includes:
Defines “gender identity” as a protected class.
Doles out “digital equity” grants partly based on racial or ethnic minority status.
State-mandated carbon reduction program
Contains funding for “zero-emission vehicles”
Addresses “over-the-road bus tolling equity”
Contains the word “equity” 64 times
Provides roughly $2.5 billion to help the U.S. government expand the border processing stations used by migrants from poor Central American nations and other regions around the world."
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