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Dive Brief: While President Joe Biden is pushing Congress to pass a sweeping $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan laden with clean energy and climate provisions, Democrats are considering a reconciliation process without Republican support as well as smaller-scale actions that could advance in a bipartisan manner. "There are some really good initiatives that have potential on a smaller scale to pass and garner some bipartisan support," Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., said Thursday at a panel hosted by t...

The $62 billion proposal is a part of Biden’s American Families Plan, released last week, which includes a total of $290 billion in higher education spending to offer tuition-free community college, support for historically Black colleges and other minority-serving institutions, and increased Pell Grant awards. According to a fact sheet for the plan, states, territories and tribes would receive grant funding to allocate to colleges "that adopt innovative, proven solutions for student succes...

German police said 30 officers were injured when protests in Berlin turned violent on Saturday and Belgian police turned water canons and tear gas on an anti-lockdown party in Brussels.

Biden Says Spending Program Will Give U.S. a Leg Up on China Last Updated April 29, 2021, 10:02 p.m. ETApril 29, 2021, 10:02 p.m. ET In his address to Congress, President Biden never uttered the words “cold war,” but he spoke of the need to prove that “democracy still works” as the country competes with authoritarian adversaries. Mr. Biden attended a drive-in car rally in Georgia Thursday evening to commemorate his 100th day in office. Here’s what you need to know: President Biden ack...

Biden is transforming what it means to be a Democrat. While President Biden has pushed  a liberal agenda in his first 100 days, he has pushed back on popular proposals to cancel student debt and adopt the entirety of the Green New Deal.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times April 29, 2021 Now 100 days into his presidency, President Biden is driving the biggest expansion of American government in decades, an effort to use $6 trillion in federal spending to address social and economic challenges...

In November 2018 Energy Central posted a question about success factors for advanced nuclear reactors. The resulting Q&A discussion garnered over 6,000 page views. Now three years later some trends are emerging that indicate the answers are more complicated, but also there are opportunities to get to the answers in ways that rely on methods of producing industrial process

Print this article Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with whats going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! REFORMS ARE COMING: President Joe Biden’s nominee to be No. 2 at the Interior Department, Tommy Beaudreau, testified at his confirmation hearing this morning that he’s committed to the administration’s effort to reform oil and gas leasing on public lands and w...

Democrats are questioning Biden’s plan to tax the rich In April 2011, Barack Obama enlisted the help of billionaire investor Warren Buffett to try to convince Congress. imposed at least a 30 percent tax on Americans earning more than $ 1 billion a year. He was rejected by the walls of Republican opposition and skepticism of some moderate Democrats. Ten years later, Joe Biden continues his own version of the mission with a plan to raise taxes paid even more aggressively to help fund more than...

Theres a standoff between Democrats in CT. Liberals say: Tax the rich and give to the...

Democrats are among the doubters of Joe Bidens plan to tax the rich 28 Apr, 2021 01:47 AM 6 minutes to read Joe Bidens plan is expected to contain a near-doubling of the tax rate on capital gains and dividends for people earning more than US$1 million. Photo / AP Joe Bidens plan is expected to contain a near-doubling of the tax rate on capital gains and dividends for people earning more than US$1 million. Photo / AP Financial Times By: James Politi, Lauren Fedor, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and M...