Biden executive order pushes for child care expansion as polls show support for reform
Americans across the political spectrum support expanding child care, polling shows.
By Oliver Willis - April 19, 2023Americans across the political spectrum support expanding child care, polling shows.
By Oliver Willis - April 19, 2023President Joe Biden reiterated his promise to veto GOP efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare.
By Oliver Willis - February 09, 2023‘There are no new taxes on families making $400,000 or less and no new taxes on small businesses,’ says the official summary of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
By Josh Israel - August 04, 2022Expanded child tax credits included in the American Rescue Plan lifted millions out of poverty across the country before the credits were allowed to expire.
By Oliver Willis - July 28, 2022With a more solid majority in the Senate, Democrats would be able to pass stalled legislation to invest in clean energy and close tax loopholes for the richest Americans.
By Josh Israel - July 19, 2022Sen. Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans continue efforts to block President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
By Josh Israel - July 12, 2022The Wisconsin Republican senator benefits from a federal tax cut law he helped pass and faces criticism of his habit of billing taxpayers for vacation flights.
By Josh Israel - June 02, 2022Nevada Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and his spouse appear to have increased their holdings in a major pharmaceutical company since December.
By Josh Israel - May 23, 2022A new poll shows strong support for a compromise Build Back Better package.
By Josh Israel - May 04, 2022Only 12 Republicans in the House of Representatives joined all Democrats to vote for the Affordable Insulin Now Act.
By Emily Singer - April 01, 2022‘That doesn’t sound like something that I see in the Constitution,’ Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) said when asked about national paid parental leave.
By Josh Israel - March 21, 2022Their false attempts to blame President Joe Biden have been widely debunked.
By Josh Israel - March 10, 2022Every Republican senator voted against President Joe Biden’s plan to invest $555 billion in clean energy and combating climate change.
By Josh Israel - March 08, 2022Republican lawmakers are outraged that the special presidential envoy for climate said war is harmful to people and to the planet.
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2022Republicans are blocking billions of dollars in aid promised to thousands of farmers in need.
By Oliver Willis - February 22, 2022Almost $8 trillion of the national debt was added by former President Donald Trump — with the GOP’s help.
By Josh Israel - February 08, 2022The groups are mounting a campaign to pressure Congress to pass President Joe Biden’s landmark social spending plan.
By Josh Axelrod - February 03, 2022Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Tuesday that he ‘never really felt’ affordable child care ‘was society’s responsibility.’
By Josh Israel - January 26, 2022Experts who praised the president’s first year in office say the post-pandemic economic recovery and U.S. foreign relations, among other things, hinge on what he does next.
By Josh Axelrod - January 24, 2022President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan would have boosted hiring and modernized technology at the Internal Revenue Service.
By Josh Israel - January 24, 2022Senate Republicans wasted more than 10 hours reading the American Rescue Plan aloud last year.
By Josh Israel - January 18, 2022Economists say current inflation has little to do with President Joe Biden’s policies and will moderate in 2022.
By Josh Israel - January 12, 2022Analysts predicted that President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan would have supported millions of additional jobs annually.
By Josh Israel - January 07, 2022Senate Democrats are still negotiating a version of the climate and caregiving package that can win the whole caucus’ support.
By Josh Israel - January 04, 2022The House minority leader is falsely blaming Democrats for the problems his party helped perpetuate.
By Josh Israel - January 03, 2022The Senate majority leader also plans to take up voting rights legislation in January.
By Josh Israel - December 20, 2021Some of the ‘West Virginia citizens’ in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce ad thanking Sen. Joe Manchin for opposing the bill are not just constituents.
By Josh Israel - December 17, 2021Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) wants to do away with the expanded child tax credit that has kept nearly 4 million kids out of poverty this year.
By Josh Israel - December 17, 2021Nevada Republican Adam Laxalt and his wife own more than $67,000 in pharmaceutical stocks, according to his recent financial disclosure statement.
By Josh Israel - December 16, 2021Even some of the economists the business lobbying group cites say they don’t think the Biden plan will fuel long-term inflation.
By Josh Israel - December 15, 2021