Follow the science.
It’s a line President Biden used on the 2020 presidential campaign trail and has returned to many times, including in nationally televised remarks after taking office and in March to staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, particularly when addressing the coronavirus pandemic or climate change.
Once elected, Biden announced that he would add the country’s first Cabinet-level science adviser. But grumblings over the mantra began even before he took office. After winning the election on a ‘listen to the scientists’ message, Joe Biden is actually rejecting the global scientific consensus on how to handle the pandemic, writer Branko Marcetic wrote in a December essay for Jacobin, a socialist magazine, arguing in favor of a national lockdown order.
Infrastructure talks hit snag as Republicans reject Biden s reduced $1.7 trillion counteroffer Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON Efforts to strike a bipartisan deal on an infrastructure package are in jeopardy after Senate Republicans rejected a smaller $1.7 trillion counteroffer Friday from President Joe Biden s administration, exposing wide gaps that remained in negotiations.
The setback, following weeks of talks that accelerated in recent days, raises major doubts over Biden s goal to pass a sweeping infrastructure bill with support from both Democrats and Republicans.
In his counteroffer cutting an original $2.3 trillion package, Biden proposed minor concessions to remove funding for research and development, supply chains, manufacturing and small businesses. Yet it would keep tax increases that Republicans have said they won t support under any circumstances.
Senate Republicans rejected President Joe Biden's $1.7 trillion counter offer in infrastructure bill on Friday, escalating tensions in negotiations to reach a compromise agreement.
WASHINGTON Efforts to strike a bipartisan deal on an infrastructure package are in jeopardy after Senate Republicans rejected a smaller $1.7 trillion counteroffer Friday from President Joe Biden s administration, exposing wide gaps that remained in negotiations.
The setback, following weeks of talks that accelerated in recent days, raises major doubts over Biden s goal to pass a sweeping infrastructure bill with support from both Democrats and Republicans.
In his counteroffer cutting an original $2.3 trillion package, Biden proposed minor concessions to remove funding for research and development, supply chains, manufacturing and small businesses. Yet it would keep tax increases that Republicans have said they won t support under any circumstances.
Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) joined top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX), alongside House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Republican Leader of the Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) and 13 other Ways and Means Republicans, to introduce the
Combatting COVID Unemployment Fraud Act of 2021 (H.R. 3268).
The bill will prevent fraud in COVID unemployment programs, recover fraudulently paid benefits, and provide relief for taxpayers and victims of unemployment fraud. In February, Rep. Steel and Rep. McCarthy led the Republican California delegation in a letter to the Newsom Administration expressing outrage regarding the $11.4 billion in fraudulent COVID-related unemployment assistance payments made by the State of California. The California Employment Development Department (EDD) confirmed that it has paid billions in fraudulent unemployment claims, mostly through the new Pandemic Unemployment Aid (PUA) pr