Deal on Biden's $2 trillion plan edges closer; Harris is 'confident'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Psaki compared the work to starting Social Security and other major federal programs decades ago, then building on them in following years.
57% : The leaders have been working with party moderates and progressives to shrink the once-$3.5 trillion, 10-year package to around $2 trillion in child care, health care and clean energy programs.
56% : He is navigating his own party's factions -- progressives, who want major investments in social services, and centrists, who prefer to see the overall price tag go down.
55% : Negotiations were expected to continue into the weekend, all sides indicating just a few issues remained unsettled in the sweeping package of social services and climate change strategies.
54% : Negotiations were expected to continue into the weekend, all sides indicating just a few issues remained unsettled in the sweeping package of social services and climate change strategies
50% : In the mix are at least $500 billion in clean energy tax credits and other efforts to battle climate change, $350 billion for child care subsidies and free prekindergarten, an extension of the $300 monthly child tax credit put in place during the COVID-19 crisis, and money for health care provided through the Affordable Care Act.
45% : He signaled the final plan would no longer provide free community college, but said he hoped to increase Pell Grants to compensate for the loss of the policy.
37% : While the president said Sinema opposed raising "a single penny in taxes" on the wealthy or corporations, a White House official later clarified that the president was referring to raising the top tax rates, not the range of tax proposals "which Sen. Sinema supports."
31% : However, the White House is reviving the idea of a corporate minimum tax rate that would hit even companies that say they had no taxable income -- a frequent target of Biden, who complains they pay "zero" in taxes.

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