Latest infrastructure deal ditches tax on rich for tax on working families
The Biden administration is pushing back against proposed gas tax increases in the latest deal.
By Josh Israel - June 11, 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, 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, 2021The president has said that transitioning to electric vehicles is a way to create good-paying American union jobs for the next generation of transportation.
By Associated Press - May 18, 2021Days after saying he would not negotiate, the Senate minority leader is already waffling.
By Josh Israel - May 10, 2021And he wants the plan to be much smaller than what the GOP first suggested.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 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, 2021Sen. Shelley Moore Capito claimed the only infrastructure the public wants is roads and bridges.
By Josh Israel - April 23, 2021The GOP alternative omits funding for the human infrastructure needed to provide care for children and older Americans.
By Josh Israel - April 22, 2021A new poll found 76% of all voters and 57% of Republicans believe investment in clean energy is important.
By Josh Israel - April 22, 2021His promise of a congressional ‘backlash’ for ‘woke corporate America’ does not apparently include any actual backlash.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2021Republicans want to make sure drivers of electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles pay more.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2021Sen. 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, 2021But it only offers a fraction of the benefits President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan does.
By Donna Provencher - April 15, 2021John Barrasso is apparently very worried that Biden’s infrastructure plan might help protect the planet.
By Josh Israel - April 14, 2021Republicans’ claim that it will cost 1 million jobs totally skips over the jobs part of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - April 14, 2021They want a gas tax increase instead of a corporate tax increase.
By Josh Israel - April 13, 2021A 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, 2021GOP 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, 2021And they are demanding similar cuts to the infrastructure package now.
By Josh Israel - April 08, 2021Rep. Brian Mast wants to fund the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan by slashing $40 billion in foreign aid.
By Josh Israel - April 07, 2021Congressional 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, 2021Nearly three-quarters of likely voters support Biden’s plan.
By Josh Israel - April 07, 2021Up 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, 2021Republicans suddenly have a very narrow definition of infrastructure.
By Josh Israel - April 06, 2021Sen. 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, 2021Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans will unanimously oppose President Joe Biden’s new jobs plan.
By Josh Israel - April 05, 2021