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, 2021Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) has opposed all of President Joe Biden’s jobs legislation.
By Josh Israel - August 25, 2021The Democrats’ proposal would invest in climate, health care, and human infrastructure.
By Josh Israel - August 05, 2021Eleven 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, 2021The state has gained more than 44,000 new jobs since Inauguration Day.
By Josh Israel - July 15, 2021Biden’s American Jobs Plan ‘will help prepare us before the next big cold snap hits,’ Steve Brown writes.
By Steve Brown - July 14, 2021But they refused to allow any tax increases to actually pay for the bipartisan $579 billion investment package.
By Josh Israel - July 13, 2021Republicans have cited a Tax Policy Center study that doesn’t support their claims.
By Josh Israel - July 08, 2021Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called proposed funding ‘unrelated tax hikes, wasteful spending, and Green New Deal socialism.’
By Josh Israel - June 30, 2021The president plans to pass a bipartisan infrastructure deal and to enact other priorities separately using budget reconciliation.
By Josh Israel - June 25, 2021Some Senate Democrats say the omissions must be covered in other legislation.
By Josh Israel - June 24, 2021Democrats 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, 2021The Biden administration is pushing back against proposed gas tax increases in the latest deal.
By Josh Israel - June 11, 2021Sen. 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, 2021559,000 new jobs were added last month, with unemployment claims dropping once again.
By Josh Israel - June 04, 2021The Republican counteroffer is not even close to President Joe Biden’s proposed compromise of $1.7 trillion.
By Josh Israel - May 27, 2021President Joe Biden offered to cut about a quarter of the spending out of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - May 24, 2021Rep. Yvette Herrell’s proposal would suspend the gasoline tax that funds transportation infrastructure.
By Josh Israel - May 21, 2021Most Americans want to fund federal investment plans by taxing the rich and corporations.
By Josh Israel - May 17, 2021The 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, 2021Days after saying he would not negotiate, the Senate minority leader is already waffling.
By Josh Israel - May 10, 2021Republicans previously warned the president’s proposals might make the economy too hot.
By Josh Israel - May 07, 2021So much for the bipartisanship Republicans demanded.
By Emily Singer - May 05, 2021And he wants the plan to be much smaller than what the GOP first suggested.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2021Republicans are against nearly everything President Joe Biden deems needed.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2021Sen. Mitch McConnell accused President Joe Biden of running as a moderate but not governing as one.
By Josh Israel - April 28, 2021Nearly 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, 2021It doesn’t even come close to covering the ground the American Jobs Plan does.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2021Rep. Kat Cammack seems to have read neither the American Jobs Plan nor recent polls.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2021They also really like his forthcoming $1.8 trillion American Families Plan.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2021