(WWJ) -- Activists are rallying in Macomb County to support the Build Back Better act, which is once again being debated in Washington D.C.
About two dozen demonstrators from a variety of local environmental and community justice groups on Monday gathered along Van Dyke Avenue in Warren for passage of the initiative.
Jamie Simmons with the Michigan Climate Action Network says a shift from fossil fuels to a green and clean economy is critical to combating climate change.
“That is done by investing in solar, wind power, moving away from burning gas and coal,” Simmons told WWJ’s Jon Hewett. “The Build Back Better package funds that and is giving people the opportunity and us as a nation to step away.”
Among those arguing for child care, tuition support and other social safety items offered in the plan was Brandon Snyder with the Detroit Action group.
“We want to make sure…that the thing that we voted on in support of President Biden — this Build Back Better plan, this infrastructure, this recovery — actually happens,” Snyder said.
The Build Back Better Agenda is a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan with the goal of creating jobs, cutting taxes and lowering costs for working families by increasing taxes of the wealthiest members of the population, as well as large corporations.
Earlier this month, the opposition came out in droves to speak out against President Biden as he visited Howell to drum up support for the iniative.
In his speech at the union training facility, Biden argued his spending plan was critical to the continued global competitiveness of America.
“America’s still the largest economy in the world, we still have the most productive workers and the most innovative minds in the world, but we’re at risk of losing our edge as a nation,” he said.
The Build Back Better proposal once boasted a $3.5 trillion price tag, but Biden has since walked that back to a reported $2 trillion.
“I want to make sure that we have a package that everyone can agree on," Biden told reporters in Howell. "It’s not going to be $3.5 trillion. It’s going to be less than that.”
“We’re going to get it done,” he added.
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