Early in his presidency, Joe Biden proposed the Build Back Better economic plan, which both the media and the White House framed as an ambitious, New Deal–style program for the twenty-first century. The bill that emerged from this plan was foiled, in the end, by the swing vote of Senator Joe Manchin, late in 2021. But many of its original objectives—investing in clean energy, climate resilience, and affordable housing—reemerged, albeit in diluted form, in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, and the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA. Читать дальше...