Facing another round of skyrocketing inflation, empty store shelves, and falling poll numbers, the future of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda looks increasingly imperiled. Much fanfare has been made about the death of his signature legislation, the so-called “Build Back Better” (BBB) Act – a sweeping, multitrillion dollar partisan social welfare bill that failed because it could not win support from all members of the president’s own party in the Senate. But lest we forget, even without BBB, Democrats did pass a sweeping, multitrillion dollar partisan spending bill in 2021 – the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act, which passed with no Republican votes and was signed into law in March.
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