
ALT Most of Biden’s social agenda never materialized. The IRA dropped $1.7 trillion of the funding in the Build Back Better Act. This chart has two columns comparing the House-passed reconciliation bill, the Build Back Better Act, and the final version, the Inflation Reduction Act. The following figures are in billions: Climate funding, $560 to $369; child care & universal pre-K, $380 to $0; paid family & medical leave, $205 to $0; child tax credit, $190 to $0; affordable housing, $175 to $0; Medicaid home & community care, $150 to $0; Affordable Care Act subsidies, $120 to $64; immigration reform, $110 to $0; education & workforce aid, $40 to $0; Medicare hearing coverage, $35 to $0; other spending, $190 to $4. Data comes from the CBO, CRFB, U.S. Senate, and the Joint Committee on Taxation. Read more at levernews.com. Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler (@stephensemler).




































