The $1,400 stimulus checks that are continuing to roll out to Americans came as a result of the American Rescue Plan, the first major legislative effort of the Biden era. Now, Biden is planning another big legislative push.

It’s called the American Family Plan, and President Biden is expected to announce the details of the plan this week. According to a New York Times preview, the plan will raise the top marginal tax rate from 37 percent to 39.6 percent, which will fund $1.5 trillion in new spending on several things. These include plans to “fight poverty, reduce child care costs for families, make prekindergarten and community college free to all, and establish a national paid leave program, according to people familiar with the proposal,” the Times said.

There are also plans for “enhanced Internal Revenue Service enforcement.”

According to the newspaper, the Biden Administration has decided not to include an effort to expand health coverage or prescription drug pricing in the American Family Plan, and instead address that in separate legislation.

Biden is planning to pursue one piece of legislation dealing with physical infrastructure, and a second bill, the American Family Plan, will deal with what the administration considers “human infrastructure.”

In addition, Biden plans to include an extension of the expanded child tax credit from the American Rescue Plan, putting it in place through 2025.

CNN reported that Biden will begin making the case for the new American Family Plan in his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. Then, he will “hit the road” to talk up his plans for the legislation and how to pass it.

Both media reports indicate that the proposal is being tweaked, all the way up to the last minute.

“While key elements of the proposal have been tweaked, removed or added in just the last several days, Biden's joint session speech has long been viewed as the platform to unveil the proposal and its key elements, several of which Biden's top advisers consistently point out poll quite well with the public,” the CNN report said.

A group of progressive Democratic Senators, led by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, has written a letter asking Biden to address health care in the Family Plan.

"Medicare has been one of the most successful and popular federal programs in our nation's history since it was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965,” the letter said, per CNN. “Now, 55 years later, the time is long overdue for us to expand and improve this program so that millions of older Americans can receive the health care they need, including eyeglasses, hearing aids and dental care.”

Stephen Silver, a technology writer for The National Interest, is a journalist, essayist and film critic, who is also a contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly Voice, Philadelphia Weekly, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Living Life Fearless, Backstage magazine, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenSilver.