Biden ‘not sure’ enhanced child tax credit, free community college will stay in Build Back Better

“I think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now and come back and fight for the rest of it,” he said.

Important pieces of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda may have to come out of the bill.

Children and college students will pay the price.

“There’s two really big components that I feel strongly about that I’m not sure I can get in the package,” Biden told reporters Wednesday. “One is the childcare tax credit, and the other is help for cost of community colleges.”

Still, Biden said that he will try to pass the legislation in parts.

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