The House of Representatives on Friday approved a roughly $2 trillion social-spending and climate-change bill backed by President Joe Biden, sending the measure to the Senate, where it is expected to face significant changes.
Lawmakers in the Democratic-controlled House passed what’s known as the Build Back Better plan on a vote of 220 to 213. The sprawling package would create universal preschool, extend more-expansive Affordable Care Act subsidies, fund clean-energy programs and provide tax credits for electric vehicles F GM of as much as $12,500.
“Too many Americans are just barely getting by in our economy,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said before the vote. “And we simply can’t go back to the way things were before the pandemic.” Speaking to reporters after lawmakers voted, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said “we’ll be telling our children and grandchildren we were here this day.”