U.S. Politics
Spend Money to Fight Inflation?
The US Senate has passed Joe Biden’s flagship economic package after a marathon overnight voting session that handed the president a major political victory just months before the midterm elections. The climate, tax and healthcare bill, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by a margin of 51 to 50, with voting split along party lines and vice-president Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote in an evenly divided Senate. The bill still needs to pass the House of Representatives and be signed by the president before it becomes law, but its passage by the Senate marks the biggest in a string of recent wins for Biden as he aims to defend slim majorities in both chambers of Congress in November.