BUILD BACK BETTER

The Build Back Better Act will be a transformational piece of legislation that will vastly improve the lives of every American. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to level the playing field by making the top 1% and large corporations pay their fair share in taxes.

CUTS TAXES

  • Tax cuts for families with children

  • Tax cuts for workers without children

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

  • Invests in public housing and sustainability

  • Invests in the Housing Trust Fund

  • Invests in equity and community land trusts

  • Creates and preserves affordable housing

  • Provides down payment assistance

  • Provides rental assistance

  • Develops and revitalizes communities through zoning, land use and transit improvements

  • Invests in Native American housing programs.

ADDRESSES CLIMATE CHANGE

  • Funds agriculture conservation, drought and forestry programs to help reduce carbon emissions and prevent wildfires

  • Funds low-income and other climate-friendly technologies

  • Electrifies the federal vehicle fleet

  • Electrifies and rehabs federal buildings

  • Invests in green-materials procurement

  • Invests in coastal resiliency and healthy oceans

  • Invests in the development of clean energy

  • Creates a clean electricity payment program

  • Funds consumer rebates to weatherize and electrify homes

  • Finances domestic manufacturing of clean energy and auto supply chain technologies

  • Funds climate research, infrastructure research for DOE National Labs, hard Rock mining, and Department of Interior programs

  • Invests in rural development and rural co-op clean energy

  • Funds agricultural climate and infrastructure research

  • Invests in clean water affordability and access, health ports, and climate equity

  • Funds EPA climate and research programs

  • Administers a methane polluter fee to reduce carbon emissions

  • Invests in Native American energy, resilience and climate programs, BIA programs and facilities, language programs and the Native Civilian Climate Corps

CREATES JOBS

  • Workforce training and development

  • Clean energy jobs

  • Provides small business access to credit, investment, and markets

  • Provides child care for working families

  • Invests in technology and transportation

  • Funds research, manufacturing and economic development

  • Funds National Science Foundation research and technology directorate

AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE

  • Invests in maternal, behavioral, and racial health equity

  • Funds primary care

  • Funds pandemic preparedness initiatives

  • Lowers prescription drug costs

  • Funds Native American health programs and facilities

EDUCATION

  • Funds universal pre-K for 3 and 4 year olds

  • Creates tuition-free community college

  • Invests in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions

  • Increases the maximum Pell grant award

  • Invests in school infrastructure

  • Invests in student success grants

  • Invests in educators

SECURITY

  • Improves cybersecurity infrastructure

  • Makes border management investments

  • Invests in smart and effective border security measures

  • Funds a community violence intervention initiative

  • Seeks lawful permanent status for qualified immigrants