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House Democrats are expected to vote on Friday on a new version of the social spending plan of the president Joe Biden , also known as Financial Aid Plan and the bipartisan infrastructure bill , the majority leader of the the House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer .
Hoyer said the House Rules Committee will meet Thursday night and the House will meet again Friday morning at 8 am ET to vote, according to CBS News.
A Democratic aide told CBS News that Democratic Party leaders in the Lower House feel confident that they can finish those key agenda items Friday, after weeks and months of negotiations.
The latest version of the social spending bill ( Build Back Better ) restores paid family and medical leave, after that provision was removed due to opposition from Senator Joe Manchin .
The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Richard Neal , announced on Wednesday that the provision of the paid family leave was officially back on the proposal, hours after Republican Glenn Youngkin was projected to be the winner of the Virginia gubernatorial race.
Neal said Democrats could approve paid family leave “Responsibly, paying in full for this program of financial resources.” The measure would allow qualifying Americans to receive four weeks of paid leave.
But Manchin told reporters on the same day that he had not been informed that House Democrats were re-including paid leave. in the spending plan, and indicated that the idea would be supported if they included it in a separate measure.
Do this in a separate measure, in a “bipartisan” way, it suggests that Manchin does not want to see paid licenses in this bill, which will go through a process called reconciliation and will require a simple majority of senators, that is, the vote in favor of each of the from 60.
In her weekly press conference later Thursday, Nancy Pelosi said: “We are going to pass both bills, but to do so, we have to have votes for both bills, and that’s where we are ”, according to CNN.
What are the additions
The reappearance of paid family leave is not the only major addition to the bill.
The latest version also increases the limit on state and local tax deduction (known as SALT) from $ 07, to $ 72, 500 dollars (or $ 36, 250 in the case of an estate, trust, or married individual filing a separate return ) and extends the highest limit up to 2031, instead of 2025.
A provision of the Bill would allow undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States before January 1, 2011 apply for a legal classification known as a Parole, which would protect them from deportation and I would issue work permits.
The “parole” classification does not provide beneficiaries with a direct avenue to apply for a green card or citizenship. Democrats estimate that approximately 7 million immigrants could be eligible to apply for this status.
The Speaker of the Lower House Na ncy Pelosi has indicated that some immigration provisions continue to change and they may not be in the final bill, saying it “doesn’t seem to have a great prospect in the Senate, so we can’t include it.”
Also Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced this week that Democrats reached a deal to lower prescription drug prices , which would include putting a limit on annual out-of-pocket spending for seniors and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug costs.
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