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Dec 01 2021
Analysis
Biden's Build Back Better Act Will Likely Cost Twice as Much as the CBO Projects. Here's Why.
President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act is likely to end up costing taxpayers about double what the official price tag suggests, and much of that hidden cost will end up being added to the national debt.
That's the conclusion from two independent analyses of the proposal released in recent weeks. Both rely on a key assumption that did not figure into the Congressional Budget Office'
ReasonFeb 05 2019
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Trump's State of the Union to condemn 'resistance and retribution politics,' as WH says he won't back down on wall
President Trump is set to renew his call for unity during Tuesday's primetime State of the Union address, but prominent Democrats are already signaling they have no intention of reconciliation amid ongoing fights over border wall funding and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
Fox News (Online News)Oct 03 2022
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U.K. scraps tax cut for the rich that sparked market chaos and political backlash
British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Monday ditched her signature plan to cut taxes for the country's top earners after it triggered market turmoil and a huge domestic outcry.
Truss, who is less than a month into the job, proposed removing the top tier of income tax — meaning a saving for people who earn more than 150,000 pounds ($168,000) a year — as part of a set of unfunded economic
NBC News (Online)Oct 21 2022
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Do You Feel in Charge? How the Tory Establishment Clawed Back Power From Truss’s Milquetoast Revolution
Grassroots members and supporters of the Conservative Party have been put back in their place by the party’s parliamentary elite, with Liz Truss ousted and an establishment premier likely to replace her.
Truss was hardly a staunch conservative given her strenuous support for Remain during the Brexit referendum, immediate postponement of any action against the EU over its behaviour in
Breitbart NewsApr 11 2023
Perspectives Blog
Inside AllSides: Is NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’?
Update: On April 10, Twitter changed NPR's designation from "US state-affiliated media" to "Government-funded Media." On April 12, NPR announced it would stop posting on the platform; NPR CEO John Lansing cited "a shadow of negativity," saying, "I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter."
In April 2023, Twitter added a “US state-affiliated media” tag to NPR’s (Lean Left
AllSides StaffAug 10 2021
Analysis
The Biden Blowout Is Just Beginning
These days, a trillion-dollar spending bill is a trifle barely worth arguing over and the stuff of bipartisan consensus.
Atrillion dollars used to be a lot of money, even in Washington. Now, a trillion-dollar spending bill is a trifle barely worth arguing over and the stuff of bipartisan consensus.
Oscar Wilde famously said that nothing succeeds like excess, but even he might
Rich LowryJun 16 2022
News
The AP Interview: Biden says recession is ‘not inevitable’
President Joe Biden told The Associated Press on Thursday that the American people are “really, really down” after a tumultuous two years with the coronavirus pandemic, volatility in the economy and now surging gasoline prices that are hitting family budgets.
He said a recession is not inevitable and bristled at claims by Republican lawmakers that last year’s COVID-19 aid plan was fully
Associated Press Fact CheckOct 18 2022
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Liz Truss: How could the prime minister be replaced?
Having sacked her chancellor and U-turned on a series of key measures in her government's mini-budget, a number of Conservative MPs have called for the removal of Liz Truss as party leader.
New chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned against ousting the PM, but what are the ways Tory MPs could force Ms Truss to step down?
Either the Cabinet - made up of senior members of the government
BBC NewsOct 18 2022
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Five takeaways from the Abrams-Kemp debate in Georgia
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and his Democratic rival Stacey Abrams faced off on Monday in their first debate since they competed for the governor’s mansion in 2018.
The debate quickly became a policy-heavy affair, with the candidates hammering each other over everything from education to crime to election laws. What’s more, it unfolded on the first day of the state’s early voting
The HillJun 28 2021
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McConnell to Schumer, Pelosi: Don't hold bipartisan bill 'hostage'
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday demanded that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) de-link a bipartisan infrastructure deal from a sweeping Democratic-only bill.
McConnell’s statement is the first he’s made since President Biden walked back his pledge that he wouldn’t sign the bipartisan deal if it was the
The Hill