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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Biden plans to expand the child tax credit for four more years and make the Earned Income Tax Credit permanent. He also wants to permanently lower premiums within the Affordable Care Act. The child tax credit expansion falls short of Democrats calls to make it permanent. Cornerstones of President Joe Bidens American Families Plan are helping middle-class families and reshaping the economy. One way he aims to do that is through the expa...

Democrats are doubling down on efforts for Biden to keep the expanded child tax credit. "Kids dont grow up in five years," one House Democrat said. Making CTC changes permanent could stumble in the Senate if Democrats decide to bypass the GOP. As President Joe Bidens $1.9 trillion emergency stimulus law was about to clear the House in late February, some Democrats started setting the stage for their next battle: Making the beefed-up child tax credit permanent. Sen. Sherrod Brown told reporters ...

Biden, a 78-year-old former vice president and centrist senator who was far from the first choice of most progressives in the 2020 Democratic primary, has gone big on policy, seeking to reshape the economy and social safety net amid a historic pandemic. He’s sought to undo former President Trump ADVERTISEMENT While pushing a vaccination effort to open the economy and end the pandemic, he’s also been aggressive with legislation, winning passage of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill and s...

Joe Biden Wants To Make Community College Free. Can Progressives Push Him Further? Making community college tuition-free has “no political downside.” Free four-year degrees are a tougher political sell. Susan Walsh/Getty Images First lady Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona arrive at Quad Cities International Airport in Moline, Illinois, on April 19, 2021. Biden and Cardona will be touring the Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon.  DIXON, Illinois ― President Joe Biden’...

To Tackle Inequality, We Need To Start Talking About From Where Wealth Comes Its hardly surprising people think Britain is a meritocracy: the Thatcherite narrative on wealth creation has gone unchallenged for decades. Do people in Britain resent the rich? According to two new studies published this in February, the answer to this question is: not really. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. The studies, one commissioned by Trust for Lond...

White House’s new $1.8 trillion ‘families plan’ reflects ambitions — and limits — of Biden presidency Jeff Stein © Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post WASHINGTON, DC ‐ April 23, 2021: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki during the daily press briefing in the James Brady Room at the White House on April 23, 2021. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) The White House is preparing to unveil a roughly $1.8 trillion spending and tax plan this coming we...

Print this article The recent pressure on Big Tech from Republicans is working, and they should keep it up. On Monday, Apple announced that it will allow Parler back on its App Store. Apple’s decision comes in response to a letter sent a few weeks ago by Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck and Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee to Apple, Google, and Amazon over their treatment of Parler in the wake of the events on Jan. 6 at the Capitol. They demanded answers on whether the companies handled Parle...

Big spending increases and tax changes will test the Democrats’ majority and the GOP’s willingness to stand in the way.

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“Everything we love is at stake," first-term Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said Thursday, ticking off a list of House-passed bills gathering dust in the Senate. “Not just everything we love, but everything we need." It would take all 50 Democratic senators — plus Harris — to abolish or curtail the filibuster, over the certain objection of the chambers 50 Republicans. But moderate Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., have opposed eliminating it, and Democrats say others in t...