What’s going on: Biden is expected to outline a package called the American Families Plan during a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, which will focus on human infrastructure, such as child care and education.
The president sees the package as a way to help families get on a stronger footing than they were prior to the pandemic.
But a number of Democrats want to go well beyond what Biden is expected to propose, including in areas such as tax credits for families, unemployment insurance and health care.
The scrambling means there will likely be a complicated fight that makes it more difficult to get a package through the House and Senate and to Biden’s desk for his signature, particularly if the White House is seeking to keep its overall cost down. And it will open up the Democrats to more attacks from Republicans, who are eager to prove that fiscal discipline is still a desirable quality among politicians.
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FTC Leads International Rethink Of Pharma Merger Reviews
Law360 (March 16, 2021, 7:14 PM EDT) Antitrust enforcers in the United States, the U.K., Europe and Canada announced a joint review of how they analyze pharmaceutical mergers Tuesday, aiming for concrete and actionable steps to revise an approach criticized by members of the Federal Trade Commission long before its new leadership took the reins.
FTC Acting Chair Rebecca Kelly Slaughter specifically pointed to her past criticism in Tuesday s announcement of the commission-led initiative, which currently includes enforcers from United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice s Antitrust Division and a handful of state attorneys general, with the possibility of more joining.