Former Democrat Reps. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, who had been members of the progressive “Squad” while in Congress, say that Democrats were originally looking to pass a $10 trillion version of former President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation.

“We were at $10 [trillion] and then it went down to $6 [trillion] and down to $3 [trillion] and down to $1.7 [trillion], I believe,” Bush said March 14 on the “Bowman and Bush” podcast.

The former federal lawmakers were reminiscing about the behind-the-scenes effort to push Biden’s ill-fated Build Back Better Act across the congressional finish line. The bill had called for hundreds of billions of dollars in spending on “social infrastructure” programs, including climate change initiatives, universal childcare, affordable housing, and an expansion of the child tax credit.

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