President Biden will unveil a roughly $1.8 trillion American Families Plan tonight in his first address to a joint session of Congress, as he nears the critical 100-day mark in his presidency.
Details are murky about the wide-ranging plan, which builds on a separate colossal $2.3tn infrastructure programme, but it is expected to include $200 billion for free pre-school education, alongside heavy spending on free community college, paid medical leave and expanded child tax credits. The preschool proposal alone, the administration said, could save the average family $13,000.
Biden, 78, is attempting to overhaul America’s crumbling infrastructure as the country emerges from the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. Fiscally-conservative Republicans have criticised his proposals, which go far beyond roads and bridges to include broadband
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