Biden says US needs fair tax code to ‘make this country great’ in speech on $7.3tn budget plan – as it happened

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• Biden budget proposal: tax breaks for families and lower deficit

Joe Biden is issuing a budget plan Monday aimed at getting voters' attention: tax breaks for families, lower healthcare costs, smaller deficits and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

Unlikely to pass the House and Senate to become law, the proposal for fiscal 2025 is an election-year blueprint about what the future could hold if Biden and enough of his fellow Democrats win in November. The president and his aides previewed parts of his budget going into last week's State of the Union address, with plans to provide the fine print on Monday.