What's in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill?
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Washington – House Democrats have taken President Biden's first-term domestic policy priorities and dropped them into one big 2,465-page bill that aims to expand the nation's social safety net and combat climate change.
Because the $3.5 trillion bill is opposed by Republicans, Democrats are trying to enact it through a budgetary process called reconciliation, solely with Democratic support. But this would require a "yes" vote from every Senate Democrat, and two of them, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, say they won't support it unless the price comes down. Manchin issued a statement Wednesday night reiterating his desire for a strategic "pause" on the legislation, insisting the country shouldn't be spending trillions of dollars now.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.