{"id":450646,"date":"2021-11-20T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450646"},"modified":"2021-11-20T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:27:50","slug":"us-house-passes-bidens-social-spending-bill-sends-it-to-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-house-passes-bidens-social-spending-bill-sends-it-to-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"US House passes Biden&#8217;s social spending bill, sends it to Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives has narrowly passed President Joe Biden&#8217;s roughly $2 trillion social spending and climate bill, sending it to the Senate, where it faces changes.<\/p>\n<p>The House passed the so-called &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221; bill by a vote of 220-213, after House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday evening delivered a lengthy floor speech to delay the final vote. <\/p>\n<p>The bill includes $555 billion in clean energy and climate investments, $400 billion in funding for child care and free pre-school, $200 billion in child tax and earned income tax credits, and $150 billion in home care for elderly and disabled Americans, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives has narrowly passed President Joe Biden&#8217;s roughly $2 trillion social spending and climate bill, sending it to the Senate, where it faces changes. The House passed the so-called &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221; bill by a vote of 220-213, after House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday evening delivered a lengthy floor speech to delay the final vote. The bill includes $555 billion in clean energy and climate investments, $400 billion in funding for child care and free pre-school, $200 billion in child tax and earned income tax credits, and $150 billion in home care for elderly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}