The Inflation Reduction Act sent to President Biden’s desk will end up forcing working-class Americans to pay trillions of dollars in new taxes, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. An analysis by the CBO estimates those earning less than $400,000 — the group on which Biden promised not to raise taxes — will pay … Read more
Watch live: House debates Schumer and Manchin’s Inflation Reduction Act | USA TODAYUSA TODAY Inflation Reduction Act poised for House passageCBS News Editorial: The Inflation Reduction Act — it’s complicated | Editorials | postandcourier.comCharleston Post Courier Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act is simply Build Back Better 2.0 and it’s a scamFox News View Full Coverage on … Read more
Late. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ripped the Inflation Reduction Act Saturday for doing little to fight inflation and not enough to help Americans struggling to afford health care, child care and housing. “According to the [Congressional Budget Office] and other economic organizations that have studied this bill, it will have a minimal impact on inflation,” Sanders … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s nowhere near the $4 trillion proposal President Joe Biden first launched to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems but the compromise package of inflation-fighting health care, climate change and deficit reduction strategies appears on track towards Senate votes this weekend. The estimated $740 billion proposal, struck by two top … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a decade of mostly losing out, the Internal Revenue Service may finally get the cash infusion it’s long wanted in the economic package that Democrats are working furiously to push through Congress before their August break. Under a deal worked out by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and West … Read more
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds his weekly news conference after the Democratic caucus party luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington, August 2, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday that Democrats had “no choice” but to drop a key tax provision from their major spending bill … Read more
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Late. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.Va., boards an elevator after a private meeting between the two of them on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images The political network backed by billionaire Charles Koch launched an ad blitz targeting Sens. … Read more
Late. Joe Manchin in the US Capitol on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.Va., and his staff told Democratic leadership on Thursday that he’s not willing to support major climate and tax provisions in a sweeping Biden agenda bill, according to a Democrat briefed on the conversations. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. … Read more
Late. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Sunday knocked the Inflation Reduction Act championed by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (DN.Y.) and centrist swing vote Sen. Joe Manchin (DW.Va.), saying the bill could lead to a recession despite its sponsors’ claims that it will tamp down rising prices. “It may be disinflationary by causing a recession. They’re … Read more