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Nov 18 2021
News
House Closes In on Vote on $2 Trillion Social Spending and Climate Bill
Congress’s nonpartisan scorekeeper said it would complete its analysis of Democrats’ roughly $2 trillion education, healthcare and climate package on Thursday, opening the door to the House approving the bill as soon as this evening.
The expected estimates from the Congressional Budget Office have been central to Democrats’ efforts to pass the legislation in the House. A group of five
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 09 2023
Perspectives Blog
Congress needs to pass 12 funding bills in 11 days to avert a shutdown – here’s why that isn’t likely
This piece was originally published on the Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Raymond Scheppach, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
U.S. senators and representatives returning from their summer vacations will need to shake off their suntans in quick time and get down to business.
Congress has just 11 days when it’
"The Conversation" ContributorSep 10 2022
News
White House Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Salvage Biden’s Economic Record Ahead Of Midterms
The White House has touted an economic recovery in the U.S. ahead of the midterm elections, even as many Americans remain underwater economically.
The White House published a 58-page “economic blueprint” in September touting the fastest job recovery in 40 years, the creation of 3.7 million jobs and the unemployment rate standing at a near-50-year low of 3.7%. The report noted that this
The Daily CallerMar 10 2023
Analysis
Biden’s Unserious Budget
President Biden’s sprawling $6.4 trillion budget released on Thursday is best viewed as a political messaging exercise. With Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, the proposal was dead even before arrival. But the annual ritual of the president delivering a budget request to Congress was a useful opportunity for Biden to stake out ground in the bitter standoff over next year’
National Review (News)Jul 19 2019
News
Raising the Minimum Wage
“House Democrats approved legislation Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, to $15 an hour.” The bill now heads to the Senate, where it is unlikely to pass. (AP News)
The left supports raising the minimum wage, arguing that it is unlikely to cause major job losses, though many favor a more limited increase in line with local conditions.
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The Flip SideAug 12 2020
Data
The Tax Rates of Wall Streeters and Steelworkers
During a rousing speech in Pittsburgh on Labor Day, Joe Biden said:
Why in God’s name should a man or woman working in a steel mill making $50,000 a year pay a higher [tax] rate than someone who makes tens of millions of dollars on Wall Street? … The tax code is not fair. It’s simply not fair. The wealthy aren’t paying their fair share.
That statement is demonstrably false, and
Just FactsApr 16 2018
News
Republicans Accelerate America’s Rush toward Bankruptcy
The CBO’s latest projections are nothing but bad news for fiscal conservatives.
National Review (News)Aug 21 2019
News
US BUDGET DEFICIT WILL BREACH $1 TRILLION TWO YEARS EARLIER THAN PREDICTED
The federal budget deficit is projected to reach more than $1 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year, a figure that would arrive two years sooner than previously predicted, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released Wednesday.
This fiscal year, which ends September 30, will see a deficit of about $960 billion, a figure that CBO says will likely climb to at
NewsweekAug 19 2022
News
U.S. Treasury Disputes Finding That New IRS Funding Would Increase Middle-class Taxes
As a political messaging war rages over $80 billion in new Internal Revenue Service funding, a U.S. Treasury official is pushing back on an informal estimate that the money could cause Americans earning less than $400,000 to pay as much as $20 billion more in taxes over a decade.
Republicans have seized on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate, claiming Democratic President Joe
International Business TimesMay 07 2021
Opinion
Weak Jobs Report Shows Limits of ‘Stimulus’
The strong economic recovery came to a surprising halt amid the federal government reporting only 266,000 new net jobs created in April. Axios adds that “forecasters had floated gains close to 1 million, making this the biggest miss, relative to expectations, in decades.” And that is not the only bad news: March’s booming 916,000 net jobs gain was also revised down to 770,000.
The
National Review (News)