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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Democrats in the U.S. House finally passed the Build Back Better Act, President Biden's $1.85\\xa0 trillion landmark spending bill to expand healthcare, childcare, education, eldercare and much more, including scores of long-overdue provisions that, if any one were passed individually as a standalone bill, it would mark a major improvement in working Americans' lives. Every House Republican voted against it. It now faces a tough road in the 50-50 U.S. Senate, where obstructionist Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema can weaken it further or kill it all together. More mythbusting on the 'inflation panic' and pandemic-induced supply chain problems: NICOLAS RIVERO of Quartz discusses his recent myth-busting, deep-dive report on our pre-Christmas, pandemic supply chain issues, and why a shortage of truck drivers is not actually to blame (despite no shortage of bad reporting on it).\\xa0 Rivero explains how pandemic disruptions, truck drivers' wages and working conditions, and the big trucking companies' push to ensure a race to the bottom have all combined to exacerbate these bottlenecks, in an industry with an average turnover rate of 94 percent per year. He also explains how Biden's just-passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill will help in the long term. Also today:\\xa0 The 17-year-old who crossed a state border into Kenosha, Wisconsin to unlawfully wield a semi-automatic weapon and shoot three anti-racism protesters, killing two of them, was acquitted of all charges \\u2013 suggesting it's now open season to shoot protesters, as long as you're white.\\xa0 Two recounts are scheduled that could erode Republican control of the Virginia House of Delegates. After getting an earful from citizens, Virginia school board reverses its order banning books from school libraries."