Congressional Republicans are seizing on recent comments from health officials and top scientists about the origins of the coronavirus as vindication of their previous claims, and are demanding Democrats launch investigations.
Airlines ability to reach ambitious carbon emission reduction goals by 2050 could depend, to some degree, on passage soon of some version of President Biden’s controversial and hugely expensive “infrastructure” spending proposal.
You Could Get a Monthly $300 Stimulus Check Through December 2020
The first payment is scheduled to go out on July 15. Payments will continue every month thereafter, at a rate of $250 per month for older children, and $300 per month for younger ones.
One of the more interesting parts of the American Rescue Plan was an increase in the Child Income Tax Credit for parents making less than $75,000 per year apiece. Under the terms of the legislation, the payment was increased from $2000 per year in tax relief to $3600 for each child under the age of six, and $3000 for those older than six.
However, the plan also included a more interesting provision. Rather than simply allow parents to claim the tax credit as a discount when filing in April, as had previously been the standard practice, the new legislation mandated that the IRS proactively send the credit out in the form of checks and direct deposits. This has effectively made the increased tax credit function as a miniature stimulus
By BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) â Republican leaders forcefully condemned GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday, calling her comments comparing COVID-19 safety measures like mask-wearing to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany appalling. Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement, which stopped short of calling for Greene to face disciplinary measures. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling.
Greene, a conservative firebrand from Georgia and ally of former President Donald Trump, has thrived on stirring controversy, pushing conspiracy theories and forcefully confronting her colleagues since taking her seat in the House in January. But, until now, Republican leaders have proven hesitant to criticize her and refused to join with Democrats earlier this year when they