We re open to doing a roughly $600 billion package which deals with what all of us agree is infrastructure, McConnell said at an event in Kentucky. And to talk about how to pay for that in any way other than reopening the 2017 tax reform bill.
Raising the corporate tax rate to 28%, up from 21%, is the linchpin of Biden s proposal to pay for the American Jobs Plan, a massive revamping of the nation s infrastructure and energy sector that would create jobs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
But McConnell on Monday called the 2017 tax cuts among the most significant domestic accomplishments of the past four years under former President Donald Trump. We re not going to revisit that, he said.
NEW DELHI: Talking about Trinamool Congress’s meticulous preparation against BJP in West Bengal, poll manager Prashant Kishore made a telling comment about Congress’s inability to fight BJP, saying that a party cannot get up a fortnight before polls and think it can win.
The barb, aimed at the Congress leadership, has takers within the party as insiders are terming the debacle in five state polls as yet another wake up call and it may soon be too late. Leaders say there is an urgent need for the leadership to put competent and credible people in key organisational positions and bring about internal cohesiveness in the dissension ridden ranks. “Mere holding of election to the post of AICC president will not be enough,” is the refrain.
Don’t worry: Poonawalla assured safety
IANS / Updated: May 4, 2021, 06:00 IST
Minister Dr
MUMBAI A perturbed
Maharashtra government on Monday has assured “full security and safety” to Serum Institute of India Ltd (SII) CEO
Adar Poonawalla who has claimed threats of dire consequences in the last few days.
Taking a serious note,
Shiv Sena’s Minister of State for Home Shambhuraj Desai, while promising complete security to the Pune-based
vaccine king also asked him to lodge a police complaint in writing and the state government would take strict action in the matter.
Nationalist
Congress Party’s Housing Minister Dr Jitendra Awhad demanded that the country and all citizens would like to know the truth behind Poonawalla’s interview to a London newspaper. “He says that if he speaks the truth, he will be killed. Let the country know the truth,” Awhad urged.
BJP leads, Samajwadi Party close second in Panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh
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The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Congress were way behind, even as a number of independent candidates were also in the lead.
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The ruling BJP and the Samajwadi Party (SP) were leading in a substantial number of seats after the second day of counting of votes for the zila panchayat wards in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Congress were way behind, even as a number of independent candidates were also in the lead.
Polls to the district panchayats were held as part of the three-tier local body elections last month. These polls are not fought on party symbols but candidates are backed by parties and all major parties had released lists of candidates backed by them for the zila panchayat polls. Voting patterns here may go on to indicate trends for the 2022 assembly elections, even though they are fought on local issues. It was also the first time
Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
Logan Grover of Erie, Colorado, first came to the FBI s attention about two weeks after the attack, when informants reported a Facebook post he made ahead of traveling to Washington, D.C.
According to the post, which the FBI included in its statement of fact about his arrest, Grover wrote, If you accept the reality that the election was stolen, than (sic) you cannot accept Biden as the new president & neither can I.
Further in the post, Grover wrote this was his first protest and he wasn t sure what to do, concluding, I have no interest in violence. Sadly I recognize that violence is highly likely. I am not certain what is going to happen tomorrow. I am certain I need to be here.