Warren, a progressive Democrat from Massachusetts, is inviting billionaire investor Leon Cooperman to testify before a Senate Finance subcommittee hearing on taxes.
Cooperman, in a response given to CNBC, acknowledged he received the message and said that he is considering Warren s invitation. The senator requested that Cooperman confirm his attendance by Thursday.
Warren, in a letter to Cooperman first obtained by CNBC, called on the financier to attend a hearing being organized and led by the Finance Committee s Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth subcommittee, which she chairs. The hearing, set for April 27, is titled Creating Opportunity Through a Fairer Tax System.
Heartless , lacks vision : Chidambaram slams Centre s revised COVID-19 vaccine policy
The Centre on Monday announced that people above the age of 18 will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine from May 1. Under the revised policy, vaccine manufacturers will be allowed to release 50 per cent of doses to the open market
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Chidambaram said that the states should get the vaccine at the same rates at which the Centre is getting them
Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday slammed the government over its revised vaccine policy. Chidambaram has stated that the new vaccine policy is heartless and lacks vision .
The White House is expected to roll out the plan within days.
Biden s American Jobs Plan, which congressional Democrats have started to craft, calls to revamp roads, bridges, airports, broadband, utilities, housing and job training.
The second piece is expected to expand child care, paid leave, pre-K education and tax credits for families, while raising taxes on the wealthy. Those policies are priorities for progressives, who have said they want to address shortcomings in the social safety net exposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which disproportionately affect women in the labor market.
It would extend the strengthened child tax credit which Democrats coronavirus relief bill raised to as much as $3,600 per child per year through 2025 but not make it permanent, CNBC confirmed. The Biden administration will likely move to offset the costs by hiking taxes on the wealthiest Americans, and is considering options including raising the top income tax rate to the pre-2017 level of
›Why not same passion to win war against COVID-19 as shown to win polls: Kapil Sibal to PM Modi
Why not same passion to win war against COVID-19 as shown to win polls: Kapil Sibal to PM Modi
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Why not same passion to win war against COVID-19 as shown to win polls: Kapil Sibal to PM ModiPTI
Last Updated: Apr 20, 2021, 02:00 PM IST
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With the country reeling under a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Congress has questioned Prime Minister Modi for addressing poll rallies in West Bengal while ignoring his responsibilities at the Centre.
Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday asked why he was not showing the same passion to win the war against coronavirus as shown to win elections.