Douglas Holtz-Eakin details Build Back Better’s climate component

Published October 25, 2021 1:46pm ET



The scope of it is remarkable.” That observation from former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin about the Democrats’ multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill typifies his view that the bill is transformational to the American way of life and our economic system. In part three of this interview with Doug McKelway, Holtz-Eakin doubts that the bill’s climate component will pass muster with the Senate parliamentarian, although he notes, parliamentarians serve at the will of the majority leader.