House approves sweeping climate, tax, health care package

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The package specifically includes $369 billion in energy security and climate investments and $64 billion to expand Affordable Care Act subsidies for two years.
47% : According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, only about 150 firms would be affected.
47% : "Today, now they are choosing to end the session by spending half-a-trillion dollars more of your money, raising taxes on the middle class, and giving handouts to their liberal allies," he added.
45% : In a roughly 50-minute speech on the House floor Friday, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called the legislation a "misguided, tone-dead bill," slamming it for inflationary concerns and bringing attention to elevated prices in the U.S. Republicans during debate also took issue with the provision that allocates $80 billion to the IRS to bolster enforcement.
40% : The legislation will increase taxes on corporations, address climate change and bring down the prices of prescription drugs, all while lowering the deficit.
36% : The bill also allocates $80 billion to increase enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service and ensure that wealthy individuals and corporations are not evading taxes.

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