The headlines this Friday were the Anti-Inflation Act, which will cut prescription drug costs, address climate change, increase taxes and reduce the federal deficit, confirmed by House Democrats Short.
The legislative proposal submitted to Biden for signature is the expected part of his economic agenda but has been long delayed, La Opinion newspaper reported.
Though reportedly only a fraction of the original project, dubbed Build Back Better, the accomplishments arrived in time for the Nov. 8 midterm elections, which Democrats needed to bring something to show voters.
The 220-207 vote marked the culmination of more than a year and a half of debate that at times pitted party lawmakers against one another and revealed deep divisions among the president’s co-religionists in Congress.
The $750 million package received Senate approval last week.
But the good news for Biden this week has had competition from the political scandal in Washington following the operation the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in South Florida last Monday.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) suspected that Trump violated the Espionage Act, among other things, when he piled up reams of documents there after his departure last year.
FBI agents seized 11 boxes of files during the search, including several classified as “top secret.”
However, Republican lawmakers dismissed the news the day before, accusing the DOJ of conducting a political witch hunt aimed solely at harming Trump, who is weighing another race for the White House in 2024.
“What they are doing to President Trump is political persecution,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Republican of Georgia) told reporters on the steps of the Federal Capitol, The Hill newspaper reported.
Earlier this year, Trump turned over 15 boxes of documents and other materials to the National Archives, but the DOJ later subpoenaed the former president for more files on suspicion that he was withholding others.
“If the nature of these documents is what it appears to be, it is very serious,” warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
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