Thread by @chelliepingree

The #BuildBackBetter Act is a blueprint to rebuild our nation for the next century. Our plan fulfills the urgency Americans rightfully demand of their government.

🧵Here's why I enthusiastically support it...
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For decades many of the biggest challenges facing our nation have been put on the back burner: child care affordability, a stronger safety net for aging Americans and people with disabilities, and our hazardous dependence on fossil fuels, to name a few.

.@POTUS ran on a platform to reform these failed policies. That he won more votes than any candidate in our history was a strong endorsement of these promises. Amid a pandemic & economic crisis, Americans elected a unified Democratic gov't to solve our most perplexing problems.

With the #BuildBackBetter plan, we could serve 29,000 more young children in Maine, raise wages for early educators and see $409 Million in new economic activity from parents rejoining the labor force.

#BuildBackBetter would make investments that will allow 3,800 more Maine seniors and people with disabilities to receive home care services and help 1,200 family caregivers return to work.

These services will literally change lives.

There’s good reason Big Oil is trying to kill the #BuildBackBetter plan. If our legislation becomes law, their days of profiting off our planet’s 🌎 decline are numbered.

#BuildBackBetter will put the country on the fast track to a 100% clean-energy future by making historic investments in public transit systems and union-made electric vehicles.

As a Maine islander and farmer, I’ve seen how the unmitigated #climate crisis is impacting our lands. Simply put, we must invest in climate resilience now, or our kids will suffer droughts, floods, fires & scarcity in a terrifying way we’ve never known.

There has been a dishonest focus on the price tag of #BuildBackBetter but the truth is: we have a plan to pay for it entirely.

Yes, you read that right. This bill will roll back the irresponsible Trump tax cuts that went to big business & the wealthiest Americans.

#BuildBackBetter is about tax fairness – the bill will make billionaires and corporations pay their rightful share while giving middle-class taxpayers the economic relief they’ve long needed.

With 535 members, no senator or representative can expect any bill to be drafted for their interests alone. What we are seeing in Washington is the crafting of transformational legislation that has buy-in from members from Arizona to Maine, West Virginia to California.

Ultimately, every member of Congress must share the goal of improving the lives of their constituents. The #BuildBackBetter plan is our once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver for the people, and that’s why it has my support.