GOP senator: Our jobs plan is just like Biden’s except we took everything out
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito claimed the only infrastructure the public wants is roads and bridges.
By Josh Israel - April 23, 2021
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito claimed the only infrastructure the public wants is roads and bridges.
By Josh Israel - April 23, 2021
The GOP alternative omits funding for the human infrastructure needed to provide care for children and older Americans.
By Josh Israel - April 22, 2021
A new poll found 76% of all voters and 57% of Republicans believe investment in clean energy is important.
By Josh Israel - April 22, 2021
His promise of a congressional ‘backlash’ for ‘woke corporate America’ does not apparently include any actual backlash.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2021
Republicans want to make sure drivers of electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles pay more.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2021
The president of the United Mine Workers of America said ensuring jobs for displaced miners is crucial to any infrastructure bill taken up by Congress.
By Associated Press - April 20, 2021
Sen. John Cornyn says Republicans could agree to one-third of the money President Joe Biden wants for his American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - April 19, 2021
But it only offers a fraction of the benefits President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan does.
By Donna Provencher - April 15, 2021
Republicans are desperately looking for a way to turn the public against President Joe Biden.
By Emily Singer - April 15, 2021
John Barrasso is apparently very worried that Biden’s infrastructure plan might help protect the planet.
By Josh Israel - April 14, 2021
Republicans’ claim that it will cost 1 million jobs totally skips over the jobs part of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - April 14, 2021
They want a gas tax increase instead of a corporate tax increase.
By Josh Israel - April 13, 2021
A Republican memo was sent just before President Joe Biden was scheduled to meet with a delegation of Congress members from both parties.
By Josh Israel - April 12, 2021
GOP lawmakers are upset that it helps older Americans, contains too many things, and doesn’t build Donald Trump’s border wall.
By Josh Israel - April 09, 2021
She’s also voted to strip health care from Americans with preexisting conditions and deny parental leave to federal employees.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021
And they are demanding similar cuts to the infrastructure package now.
By Josh Israel - April 08, 2021
Fifty-five of America’s biggest companies paid no income tax at all last year.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021
Rep. Brian Mast wants to fund the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan by slashing $40 billion in foreign aid.
By Josh Israel - April 07, 2021
Congressional Republicans say only roads and bridges count as infrastructure — but also that President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan should include Donald Trump’s failed wall.
By Josh Israel - April 07, 2021
Nearly three-quarters of likely voters support Biden’s plan.
By Josh Israel - April 07, 2021
Up to 10 million Americans are still getting their water through lead pipes — and Republicans have refused to do anything about it.
By Donna Provencher - April 06, 2021
Democrats have a potential path forward to pass legislation despite GOP stonewalling.
By Josh Israel - April 06, 2021
Republicans suddenly have a very narrow definition of infrastructure.
By Josh Israel - April 06, 2021
Republican Rep. Jim Banks is even threatening to investigate the Bidens for using a legal tax loophole that the president is trying to close.
By Josh Israel - April 05, 2021
Their claims are full of lies and misleading half-truths about who would be impacted and how President Joe Biden’s proposal works.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said Democrats would have an ‘easy win’ with President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill — if they’d just cut out the two-thirds of it Republicans don’t like.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans will unanimously oppose President Joe Biden’s new jobs plan.
By Josh Israel - April 05, 2021
They’re conveniently forgetting that the definition of infrastructure includes energy, water, housing, transportation, and communications systems, too.
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