After touch-and-go negotiations, climate emerges as big winner in Biden's economic framework

"We're spending over five times what we spent in the [2009] Recovery Act, and it's a lot broader," Josh Freed, founder of the Climate and Energy Program at the center-left think tank Third Way, told ,referencing the $96 billion spent on clean energy during the Obama administration. "The Biden administration and congressional Democrats learned a big lesson, which is these kinds of investments can have a huge positive impact on sectors, technology, and the economy."