GOP lawmaker calls job losses under Trump ‘Biden’s economic crisis’
Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) has opposed all of President Joe Biden’s jobs legislation.
By Josh Israel - August 25, 2021
Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) has opposed all of President Joe Biden’s jobs legislation.
By Josh Israel - August 25, 2021
The Democrats’ proposal would invest in climate, health care, and human infrastructure.
By Josh Israel - August 05, 2021
Eleven Republican senators vowed in June to support a $579 billion infrastructure investment before ultimately voting against beginning debate on the matter altogether.
By Josh Israel - July 21, 2021
The state has gained more than 44,000 new jobs since Inauguration Day.
By Josh Israel - July 15, 2021
Biden’s American Jobs Plan ‘will help prepare us before the next big cold snap hits,’ Steve Brown writes.
By Steve Brown - July 14, 2021
But they refused to allow any tax increases to actually pay for the bipartisan $579 billion investment package.
By Josh Israel - July 13, 2021
Republicans have cited a Tax Policy Center study that doesn’t support their claims.
By Josh Israel - July 08, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called proposed funding ‘unrelated tax hikes, wasteful spending, and Green New Deal socialism.’
By Josh Israel - June 30, 2021
The president plans to pass a bipartisan infrastructure deal and to enact other priorities separately using budget reconciliation.
By Josh Israel - June 25, 2021
Some Senate Democrats say the omissions must be covered in other legislation.
By Josh Israel - June 24, 2021
Democrats in Congress are reportedly willing to agree to a smaller version of Biden’s American Jobs Plan now if they can pass their other spending priorities through reconciliation soon after.
By Josh Israel - June 14, 2021
The Biden administration is pushing back against proposed gas tax increases in the latest deal.
By Josh Israel - June 11, 2021
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) wants to spend even less on infrastructure than the GOP counterproposal while ignoring climate change completely.
By Josh Israel - June 08, 2021
559,000 new jobs were added last month, with unemployment claims dropping once again.
By Josh Israel - June 04, 2021
The Republican counteroffer is not even close to President Joe Biden’s proposed compromise of $1.7 trillion.
By Josh Israel - May 27, 2021
President Joe Biden offered to cut about a quarter of the spending out of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - May 24, 2021
Rep. Yvette Herrell’s proposal would suspend the gasoline tax that funds transportation infrastructure.
By Josh Israel - May 21, 2021
Most Americans want to fund federal investment plans by taxing the rich and corporations.
By Josh Israel - May 17, 2021
The number of initial unemployment claims dropped to 473,000 last week.
By Josh Israel - May 13, 2021
‘We are really tying that back to this notion that environmental justice and equity will be center stage at EPA and this administration,’ said EPA Administrator Michael Regan.
By Associated Press - May 12, 2021
Days after saying he would not negotiate, the Senate minority leader is already waffling.
By Josh Israel - May 10, 2021
Republicans previously warned the president’s proposals might make the economy too hot.
By Josh Israel - May 07, 2021
So much for the bipartisanship Republicans demanded.
By Emily Singer - May 05, 2021
And he wants the plan to be much smaller than what the GOP first suggested.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2021
Republicans are against nearly everything President Joe Biden deems needed.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2021
Sen. Mitch McConnell accused President Joe Biden of running as a moderate but not governing as one.
By Josh Israel - April 28, 2021
Nearly 100 days into his tenure, Joe Biden remains popular with a majority of the country. And his policies are even more popular than he is.
By Emily Singer - April 28, 2021
It doesn’t even come close to covering the ground the American Jobs Plan does.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2021
Rep. Kat Cammack seems to have read neither the American Jobs Plan nor recent polls.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2021
They also really like his forthcoming $1.8 trillion American Families Plan.
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