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House Democrats and 13 Republicans Pass the Bipartisan, One Point Two Trillion Dollar Info Structure Bill, Finally Infor Structure Week

Two massive bills that are key to bidon's agenda, but that different factions within the democratic party have been fighting for months. One of these bills did finally pass on friday night, this one trillion dollar intostructure bill. But what got lost? Well, the clean electricity programme, which would have rapidly replaced coal and gasphared power plants with things like wind and solar and nuclear. There are other climate measures in place, and a lot of money for them, many experts say. It doesn't tackle taxes as originally envisioned - not raising income and tax rates, or toughening inheritance taxes. They're still going to raise taxes on the wealthy, but they're weakened.

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