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		</div><p>A divided Congress gave final approval on Friday to Democrats’ flagship climate and health care bill, handing President Joe Biden a back-from-the-dead triumph on coveted priorities that the party hopes will bolster their prospects for keeping their House and Senate majorities in November’s elections.</p>
<p>The House used a party-line 220-207 vote to pass the legislation, prompting hugs among Democrats on the House floor and cheers by White House staff watching on television.</p>
<p>“Today, the American people won. Special interests lost,” tweeted Mr Biden, who was shown beaming in a White House photo as he watched the vote on TV from Kiawah Island, South Carolina. He said he would sign the legislation next week.</p>
<p>The measure is but a shadow of the larger, more ambitious plan to supercharge environment and social programmes that Mr Biden and his party unveiled early last year.</p>
<p>Even so, Democrats happily declared victory on top-tier goals like providing Congress’ largest ever investment in curbing carbon emissions, reining in pharmaceutical costs and taxing large companies, hoping to show they can wring accomplishments from a routinely gridlocked Washington that often disillusions voters.</p>
<p>“Today is a day of celebration, a day we take another giant step in our momentous agenda,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who minutes later announced the final vote as she presided over the chamber.</p>
<p>She said the measure “meets the moment, ensuring that our families thrive and that our planet survives.”</p>
<p>Republicans solidly opposed the legislation, calling it a cornucopia of wasteful liberal daydreams that would raise taxes and families’ living costs.</p>
<p>They did the same on Sunday but Senate Democrats banded together and used Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote to power the measure through that 50-50 chamber.</p>
<p>Mr Biden’s initial 10-year, 3.5 trillion dollar proposal also envisioned free prekindergarten, paid family and medical leave, expanded Medicare benefits and eased immigration restrictions.</p>
<p>That crashed after centrist Senator Joe Manchin said it was too costly, using the leverage every Democrat has in the evenly-divided Senate.</p>
<p>Still, the final legislation remained substantive.</p>
<p>Its pillar is about 375 billion dollars over 10 years to encourage industry and consumers to shift from carbon-emitting to cleaner forms of energy.</p>
<p>That includes four billion dollars to cope with the West’s catastrophic drought.</p>
<p>Spending, tax credits and loans would bolster technology like solar panels, consumer efforts to improve home energy efficiency, emission-reducing equipment for coal- and gas-powered power plants and air pollution controls for farms, ports and low-income communities.</p>
<p>Another 64 billion dollars would help 13 million people pay premiums over the next three years for privately bought health insurance.</p>
<p>Medicare would gain the power to negotiate its costs for pharmaceuticals, initially in 2026 for only 10 drugs.</p>
<p>Medicare beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket prescription costs would be limited to 2,000 dollars starting in 2025, and beginning next year would pay no more than 35 dollars monthly for insulin, the costly diabetes drug.</p>
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