President Joe Biden on Friday announced plans to nominate two former federal officials to the U.S. Postal Service's governing board, replacing key allies of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, including its Democratic chairman.
the other proposal that senate finance committee chairman ron widen rolled out yesterday was this corporate minimum tax, that would be instead of an increase in the corporate tax rate. what the corporate minimum tax would do is it would tax companies that report a billion dollars in profits to shareholders at a minimum tax of 15%. that, of course, would cover companies who they argue are not paying their fair share right now. but, again, this is another complicated proposal that democrats are going to have to educate their members on, and there are still some questions about whether or not that billionaires tax is going to be acceptable to someone like senator joe manchin. we know the corporate minimum tax satisfied sinema and manchin. the billionaire s tax, it is an open question at this point. so many open questions. we ll see when they close them. lauren fox on the hill, thank you. joining me to discuss is someone involved in all this, democratic congressman mark