Howie Hawkins for President | Angela Walker for Vice President – RELEASE: Hawkins on Build Back Better: We Need an Ecosocialist Green New Deal, Not Another Biden Capitulation

Contact: Howie Hawkins, howie@howiehawkins.us, 315-200-6046
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For Immediate Release

Hawkins on Build Back Better: We Need an Ecosocialist Green New Deal, Not Another Biden Capitulation
The Build Back Better Framework released this morning by President Biden is a total capitulation to conservative Democratic Senators Manchin and Sinema.
The $6.1 trillion program Biden announced in his American Jobs and American Families plan has been cut to less than a third of what he proposed. Proposals that are overwhelmingly popular with the public like repealing the Trump tax cuts, paid leave, and Medicare negotiating lower drug prices with Big Pharma have been eliminated. What remains are social programs with lower benefits, privatized administration, and means testing that complicates administration and adds administrative costs. The…

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