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‘No Flexibility on the Price Tag,’ Jayapal Says of $3.5 Trillion Bill
"If we don't deliver, then I think all of the people who came out and voted for Democrats to take control of the House, the Senate, and the White House are going to come out and say, 'that's it.'" ...[Read more]
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Sanders Unveils Final $3.5T Reconciliation Package Alongside Infrastructure Bill
Senate Democrats have unveiled their $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill with provisions like paid leave, expanding Medicare coverage and proposals to tackle the climate crisis in the U.S. The Democrats plan on passing the bill alongside the bipartisan infr ...[Read more]
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Team Biden quietly approved a fat subsidy for one of America’s top coal suppliers
The St. Louis, Missouri-based company made its request for relief last year when the Trump administration was in office, and the Bureau of Land Management approved it in May. Arch Resources, formerly Arch Coal, is the second largest coal supplier in the c ...[Read more]
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Neoliberalism is coming apart and Biden has a real opportunity to transform the everyday world
Liberal economic ideas dominated the political conservation in the United States for almost half a century, starting with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide victory over President Herbert Hoover in 1932. But the New Deal era ended when Presid ...[Read more]
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Vaccine Waiver Pledge Tests Biden-World’s Pharma Ties
Biden and many of his appointees have links to drug companies trying to delay and weaken the COVID vaccine waiver he’s now promising to negotiate. ...[Read more]
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How Joe Biden turned the tables on Republicans and used their tactics against them
President Joe Biden's plans are ambitious. I know this because every headline Thursday morning after Biden gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress said so. "Biden Just Gave the Most Ideologically Ambitious Speech of Any Democratic President i ...[Read more]
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Republicans still cant find a coherent line of attack against Biden: ‘The president is popular’
With Joe Biden now three months into his presidency, Republicans are attacking him in a variety of ways — and many of them are quite ridiculous. Regardless, Biden generally has decent approval ratings, according to various polls. And reporter Tim Mur ...[Read more]
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Economists Warn Democrats ‘Going Too Small’ on Infrastructure Risks Economic and Climate Catastrophe
Pointing to the nation's tepid recovery from the 2009 financial collapse as a cautionary tale, economists are pressing Democratic lawmakers to dramatically expand President Joe Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal in order to equitably rebound fr ...[Read more]
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73% of US Voters—Including 57% of Republicans—Back Biden’s $2.25 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Poll
A new poll released Tuesday shows that a large, bipartisan majority of voters in the United States supports President Joe Biden's proposal to spend $2.25 trillion over eight years to upgrade the nation's physical and social infrastructure. The survey (pdf ...[Read more]
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Joe Biden wants to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure and jobs. These 4 charts show where the money would go.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday introduced a sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that looks to reshape the American economy and make the most significant domestic U.S. investments in generations. His far-reaching American Jobs Plan inclu ...[Read more]
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As Biden Prepares to Unveil Infrastructure Plan, Progressives Push $10 Trillion Investment
With President Joe Biden set to start unveiling his two-part infrastructure plan later this week, congressional progressives on Monday officially announced their proposal to invest $10 trillion over the next decade in renewable energy, green buildings, an ...[Read more]
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