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Democrats signal they re open to concessions on infrastructure
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POLITICO It was weird : Scenes from Biden s speech
President Joe Biden s first joint address to Congress was odd, due to the pandemic, but also a return to political monotony.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stands and applauds as President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. | Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, Pool
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President Joe Biden’s first joint address to Congress couldn’t have looked any more different than the one delivered by his predecessor just over a year before.
Biden’s hopeful rhetoric on Wednesday echoed in a mostly empty and fully masked chamber in yet another mark of the pandemic that has gripped the nation for 14 months. Instead of colorful guests flown in from home, the House’s galleries were reserved for socially distanced lawmakers, only a fraction of whom could watch the speech in person.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the new plan represents a “historic investment” in education and child care.
Mr. Biden’s spending plans are needed “so we can make badly needed investments in the financial security of middle-class families as well as [in] jobs, growth and competitiveness,” Ms. Psaki said.
To pay for some of the new spending, Mr. Biden wants to increase the top individual income tax rate from 37% to 39.6%. The 2017 GOP tax law had reduced individual tax rates across the board.
Mr. Biden also would increase the tax on capital gains from about 20% to the top individual tax rate of 39.6% for income above $1 million, not including an additional 3.8% Obamacare investment income tax.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., left, has argued that President Biden is not governing like the moderate he campaigned as in 2020. J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Congressional Republicans are painting President Biden as captive to the progressive wing of his party despite the popularity of his major initiatives in his first 100 days in office.
GOP leaders, and those thinking about running to replace Biden in 2024, are seizing on the crisis at the border and policies they deem far left included in the president s massive infrastructure proposal as pivoting the country down a dangerous path.
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