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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Nov 22, 2021, 08:27 PM Nov 2021

5 things in Biden's $2 trillion spending plan that could get stripped out by the Senate [View all]

ranging from tax cuts to paid leave

House Democrats passed a $2 trillion social spending plan on Friday morning, advancing a key part of President Joe Biden's agenda.

But it sets up a showdown in the 50-50 Senate, where the centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are influential swing votes who haven't yet given a thumbs up to the House bill.

Senate Democrats want to pass it by Christmas. Here are five provisions that could fall out of the House bill in the next few weeks.

Four weeks of paid parental and medical leave

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Lifting state and local tax deductions to $80,000

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Cap on insulin prices

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Medicare expansion

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Immigration

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