White House Looks to Reset and Downsize Build Back Better Act; Roundtable Meeting to Address National Issues With Leading Policymakers

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POLICY ISSUES AFFECTING CRE -- Read The Roundtable’s summary on a variety of policy issues in the areas of Tax; Infrastructure and Housing; Capital and Credit; Energy and Climate; and Homeland Security -- along with an Executive Summary.

The Roundtable has produced a comparison of the real estate-related tax provisions in the most recent version of the Build Back Better Act – compared to the bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee in September, and the Biden Budget.
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January 21, 2022 White House Looks to Reset and Downsize Build Back Better Act; Roundtable Meeting to Address National Issues With Leading Policymakers President Joe Biden acknowledged in a Jan. 19 news conference that his nearly $2 trillion social and climate package, the Build Back Better (BBB) Act, needs to be pared down in the face of stalled negotiations in the 50-50 Senate. "I think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, come back and fight for the rest later," Biden said, noting there some areas of agreement with key Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Read Full Article