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27 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Today I'm officially introducing my #BuyGreen Act with @RepAndyLevin to use our federal government's enormous purchasing power for American-made, clean energy products to jumpstart our green economy. rollcall.com/2021/05/27/pro…
The #BuyGreen Act invests $1.25T over the next decade for federal agencies & state, local & tribal govts to buy clean energy products, electrify transit, & retrofit buildings to be energy efficient. And it includes strong labor protections and help for frontline communities.
The #BuyGreen Act also invests $250B over the next decade to create a competitive grant program to help US companies make clean energy products right here at home and bolster our clean energy sector.
The government spends tons of money on everything from light bulbs and printer cartridges to vehicles and office buildings. Our #BuyGreen Act is a big, bold way to spend that money for good to fight the #ClimateCrisis and make the US a world leader in green innovation. #BuyGreenAct: using the government's purchasing power for Am

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20 May
The April job numbers were a stark reminder of what families know all too well: child care is infrastructure. My colleagues and I have a new report on the critical need to invest $700 billion in child care so our families and economy can recover. motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Our child care report found that nearly 20% of working parents left the workforce or reduced their hours solely due to a lack of child care. 26% of women who became unemployed during the pandemic attributed this to a lack of child care. hbr.org/2021/04/childc…
By 2021, 10 million moms with school-age children were out of the workforce – a net loss of 1.4 million from 2020. Women of color have been among the hardest hit. This will slow the economic recovery and reduce women’s earnings now and into the future.
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23 Apr
The cost of housing is squeezing communities and families. That’s why @repcleaver and I are reintroducing my bill to build nearly 3 million new housing units & bring down rents by 10% – closing the affordable housing gap. It's the big, bold policy we need. bostonglobe.com/2021/04/22/bus…
The legacy of federally-sanctioned housing discrimination has prevented Black families from buying homes & developing intergenerational wealth with homeownership. My bill includes a down payment assistance program for communities historically denied mortgages by the government.
Our bill has a new competitive grant program as an incentive for local governments to eliminate unnecessary land use restrictions that drive up housing costs, & implement tenant protections. President Biden called for this in his #AmericanJobsPlan – I've got the bill ready to go.
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8 Apr
Giant corporations that make billions of dollars in profits off the services that the rest of us pay for need to invest in America's future. Billionaires and giant corporations must pay a lot more. nytimes.com/2021/04/07/bus…
Raising the corporate tax rate alone isn’t enough when armies of lawyers and accountants help corporations pay a tiny fraction of that rate. We need a strong Real Corporate Profits Tax – and not a watered-down version that lets more giant companies continue to pay zero taxes.
This $2.5 trillion plan to enforce our tax laws and catch wealthy tax cheats is a good down payment to #BuildBackBetter – but a #WealthTax on fortunes over $50 million would raise at least $3 trillion for America’s future. Let’s not nibble around the edges here.
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31 Mar
President Biden’s #AmericanJobsPlan is crammed full of a lot of good policies that I’ve been fighting for to help working families and our economy. I wanted to highlight just a few:
I’ve been sounding the alarm long before COVID about the big, structural investments that we need to make child care part of our basic infrastructure. President Biden’s plan invests in child care facilities and availability, a good first step on the path to universal care.
I’ve introduced a housing bill to build millions of new housing units, and a bill to take care of our badly-needed public housing repairs. President Biden’s plan gets us a good part of the way there to create jobs and make housing more affordable.
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11 Mar
The #AmericanRescueAct is a historic piece of legislation for our country’s recovery from this pandemic and economic crisis. But I want to take a moment to mention some of the big wins we fought for to help families back home in Massachusetts:
Our state and local governments had to pick up the tab when Trump didn't come up with a federal plan to fight this pandemic. The relief bill has $8.1 billion for Massachusetts state and local government funding with much more flexibility than the CARES Act.
We need child care for parents to go back to work – and I fought for $50 billion in child care funding nationwide. Massachusetts is going to see $512 million to support child care providers and help families afford care, and $13.6 million for Head Start.
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11 Mar
When the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic one year ago today, our country didn’t know what was around the corner. Over half a million lives lost. Tens of millions sick. Jobs gone and businesses shuttered. Unthinkable grief without hugs for comfort.
Our doctors, nurses, hospital staff, public health experts and scientists have worked around the clock, one grueling day after another, to stop the virus. They’ve carried the weight of the world on their shoulders – our hopes and our heartbreak. They deserve our thanks every day.
And our essential workers – including grocery store workers, farm workers, warehouse workers, meatpacking workers, restaurant workers, and delivery workers – have risked their health in the scariest conditions to keep us safe and fed. We’re in their debt.
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