White House Will Push Social Spending Package After Infrastructure Passage: Adviser

White House adviser Cedric Richmond said the administration now plans to focus on the passage of the $1.75 trillion social spending package after the House approved the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last week. “We need to get it done,” Richmond told Fox News on Nov. 7 about the social spending package, which includes funding to expand social programs and “climate”-related programs. “We need to get it done now because if you look at the 17 Nobel Prize-winning economists, they said that it will ease inflationary pressures, help with the supply chain and invest in the human capital in this country all at one time,” he said, without identifying the economists during the segment. The House late on Nov. 5 approved the Senate-passed infrastructure bill, with about a dozen Republican lawmakers joining nearly all Democrats to advance the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. The vote occurred following …