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Live updates: Biden and Japan’s Suga to hold Rose Garden news conference after afternoon of meetings John Wagner © Andrew Harnik/AP President Biden speaks during a meeting with members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Executive Committee at the White House in Washington on Thursday. President Biden on Friday will hold a formal Rose Garden news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, capping an afternoon of meetings with the first foreign ...

Pete Buttigieg claims racism physically built into US highways Holden Walter-warner For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has claimed racism is built into the very infrastructure of America - in its highways.  There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and thats why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars, Buttigieg said to th...

Biden’s Infrastructure Push Spurs a Flurry of Lobbying in Congress Emily Cochrane, Pranshu Verma and Luke Broadwater © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Workers repaving a street in San Francisco last week. Officials have outlined preliminary details for President Biden’s infrastructure plan, including $115 billion to repair and build roads and bridges. WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have begun a frenzy of lobbying to ensure that their pet projects and policy priorities ar...

Secretary Pete on Bidens remark that his infrastructure plan will create 19 million jobs - its more like 2.7 million insider@insider.com (Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey) © Provided by Business Insider Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty Images President Joe Biden said April 2 that his new infrastructure package could create 19 million jobs. Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg clarified on Sunday that it will probably directly...

Pete Buttigieg tells evangelicals: A vaccine is part of Gods plan Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Pete Buttigieg told Christians Sunday that getting vaccinated against coronavirus is part of Gods plan as a new poll shows 30% of white evangelicals will definitely refuse to get inoculated. You have been outspoken on issues of your personal faith. Otherwise, I normally wouldnt bring this up, CNNs Jake Tapper pos...

Buttigieg hopes cruises will return by mid-summer Alex Gangitano © Getty Images Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks with reporters at the White House Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday that hes hopeful cruises will be operating again by the middle of summer 2021, following over a year of the industry being sidelined amid the coronavirus pandemic. "I certainty care a lot about seeing the cruise sector thrive. I know that the CDC [Centers for Disease...

Corporate America: woke, tax-averse and in GOP crosshairs Send your tips and thoughts: [email protected], or G-20 — GLOBAL TAX STRUGGLE ON TODAY’S AGENDA: Digital taxation is one of the big issues on the docket of the G20’s virtual gathering today of finance ministers, in particular Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) efforts to introduce a global minimum corporate tax rate as a way to ensure digital giants are taxed. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen thre...

Biden Infrastructure Plan Draws Attacks From Right, Left © Andrew Harnik/Associated Press Powered by Microsoft News WASHINGTON—President Biden’s big infrastructure plan drew new criticism from the right and left on Sunday, underscoring the difficult road ahead for the $2.3 trillion effort. In a spate of Sunday television interviews, Republicans continued to criticize the size and sweep of the proposal unveiled Wednesday aimed at addressing climate change—as well as the corporate-tax hi...

Buttigieg: Now’s our chance for infrastructure plan POLITICO 1 hr ago © Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo 210105_buttigieg_ap_773.jpg Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that President Joe Bidens American Jobs Plan would pay for itself while upgrading infrastructure from decades past. "Right now, were still coasting off of infrastructure choices that were made in the 1950s," Buttigieg said on NBCs "Meet the Press." "Nows our chance to make infrastructure choices for the future tha...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said during Sunday’s “Meet the Press” that the $2 trillion bill introduced by President Joe Biden represents a “a generational investment."