Thread by @benwikler

President Biden’s #BuildBackBetter plan is the agenda that he campaigned on: addressing the urgent needs of millions of American families—for child care, pre-k, college, health care, fast internet access, & so much more. Do you know what’s in it? Read on: whitehouse.gov/build-back-bet…

Negotiations are underway to move the Build Back Better agenda through Congress. What won’t change is the agenda’s core: supporting working families, tackling the climate crisis, and creating jobs—all paid for by ensuring that the wealthy pay their fair share.

The #BuildBackBetter Agenda levels the playing field so that the wealthiest who benefited from Trump's tax giveaways pay their fair share—and uses the funds to support families and, with a rising tide, lift all boats. It's a win-win.

Here are some key pieces of the agenda.

LOWER COSTS. Child care, higher ed, prescription drugs, health care, housing. POTUS’s plan will make sure middle-class families can actually afford high-quality child care in America. Ask any parent: Affordable child care is life-changing.

President Biden’s plan will work to make health care more affordable and lower health care costs and premiums by closing the Medicaid gap and lowering prescription drug costs. Right now, Americans pay 2-3x more for their prescription drugs than people in other wealthy countries.

⅓ of American adults with children struggle to pay their usual expenses. @POTUS’s American Rescue Plan (which passed thanks to Democrats and NO thanks to Republicans) expanded the Child Tax Credit & made it monthly, which has already brought critical relief to so many families.

Thanks to Democrats in Congress, the families of nearly 1.2 million Wisconsin children are breathing a little bit easier at the end of each month. President Biden is committing to delivering for working families across the state and continuing to provide these essential tax cuts.

POTUS’s plan would also create good-paying union jobs to tackle the climate crisis, while establishing energy efficiency and clean energy standards. When President Biden thinks about climate change, he thinks jobs.

All of this is possible because of the foundation on which the plan rests: Ensuring that corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. This whole plan will be paid for by making the tax code fairer—instead of handing out giveaways to those at the top.

Here’s the thing: delivering for working families, lowering prices of everyday things, and building resilient infrastructure is *popular.* Overall support for #BuildBackBetter is huge—66%—including 61% of Independents, and 39% of Republicans.
navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/upl…

Raising taxes on the super-rich is wildly popular *by itself.* People are sick of watching those at the top make off like bandits. And raising taxes on the super-rich in order to finance efforts that benefit everyone makes the whole plan a huge political win.

In Wisconsin, the state that delivered President Biden the White House, the #BuildBackBetter plan is 39 percentage points more approved-of than disapproved.
dataforprogress.org/memos/voters-i…

So we have to ask ourselves honestly: Do we keep an economy that serves the very wealthy and biggest corporations? Or do we finally give the middle class a fair shot?

Do we, as a nation, just let the rich get richer? Or do we finally give working families a leg up?

On the campaign trail, Biden summed up his plan to invest in working families: Scranton vs. Park Avenue. Since the pandemic, billionaires have seen their wealth go up, while ordinary folks (like in Scranton, as @POTUS would say), have been left behind. ips-dc.org/u-s-billionair…

We’re fighting to pass the #BuildBackBetter plan—a plan that benefits everyone—across lines of race and place. It’s supported by the overwhelming majority of Democrats in both chambers of Congress. It’s POTUS’s #1 legislative priority.

Let’s get it done.