New York Post

Details of Senate Dems’ $3.5 trillion spending bill:

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ELDERLY & DISABLED HOME CARE

$400 billion to fund long-term home and community healthcare programs for seniors and people with disabiliti­es.

HOUSING PROGRAMS

$332 billion for public housing and to “improve housing affordabil­ity and equity by providing down payment assistance, rental assistance, and other homeowners­hip initiative­s.”

SUBSIDIZED CHILD CARE

“Child care for working families” and may dust off a White House plan to cap child-care expenses for most families at 7% of income, which was estimated to cost about $225 billion.

PAID FAMILY & SICK LEAVE

President Biden has proposed 12 weeks per year of paid family and sick leave. Early version estimated the cost at $225 billion.

FREE PRE-K FOR 3- & 4-YEAR-OLDS

A national program to fund preschool. Earlier White House proposal priced it at $200 billion.

FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

A plan for two years of free community college, which White House said would cost $109 billion. Biden also has pitched an extra $85 billion in Pell Grants for low-income students, which can go toward housing and books.

ELECTRIC CARS

A call for “electrifyi­ng the federal vehicle fleet” and “financing for domestic manufactur­ing of clean energy and auto supply chain technologi­es.” A prior White House plan pitched $174 billion for electric cars.

CHILD TAX-CREDIT EXTENSION

Credits would stay $3,600 per child under 6 and $3,000 for older children.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Unspecifie­d amounts would go toward “green materials procuremen­t,” “coastal resiliency,” “climate research,” “energy efficient materials” and funding for a Civilian Climate Corps.

GREEN CARDS

A call for “lawful permanent status for qualified immigrants.” Doesn’t specify green cards would go to illegal immigrants, but many Dems want a path to citizenshi­p for them included.

BUSINESS TAX HIKES

Although not spelled out, Biden has called for the top corporate tax rate to increase from 21% to 28%, and for a new 15% minimum global tax on corporate income.

TAX HIKES ON INCOME

Framework calls for “tax fairness for high-income individual­s” and that higher taxes won’t impact “people making less than $400,000 per year.”

SALT CAP

Vaguely calls for “SALT cap relief,” which would benefit middle-class and wealthier residents of high-tax states like New York. A 2017 law capped at $10,000 the amount of state and local taxes that people could deduct before paying federal taxes.

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