Live Updates: Biden to Toughen Tax Enforcement to Help Pay for His Economic Agenda
President Biden is seeking $80 billion to strengthen I.R.S. enforcement, which administration officials believe will raise at least $700 billion over a decade. Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will travel the country this week to promote the administration’s agenda.
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President Biden will deliver remarks on the coronavirus response. He is expected to speak about outdoor mask mandates.CreditCredit.Al Drago for The New York Times
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President Biden is looking for ways to pay for his $1.5 trillion American Families Plan and his $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal.Credit.Al Drago for The New York Times
After Failures to Curb Sexual Assault, a Move Toward a Major Shift in Military Law
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has fought for years to remove commanders from deciding assault cases. Now, more colleagues and a Pentagon panel agree.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, and others have argued that having commanders in control of sexual assault cases has prevented service members from coming forward out of fear of retaliation.Credit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
April 27, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON After decades of failing to curb sexual assault in the armed forces, lawmakers and Pentagon leaders are poised to make major changes in military laws that many experts have long argued stand in the way of justice.
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Legislation introduced to allow medical monitoring for victims of exposure to PFAS
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PFAS are harmful chemicals that have been linked to cancer and other serious health conditions and ailments.
The major concern of exposure to PFAS locally is through contaminated municipal water.
Currently, people are not able to seek solutions through the courts until they can prove their health complications are linked to the PFAS.
Officials and New York State residents are hoping that fact will soon change.
Actor and Environmentalist Mark Ruffalo said in conjunction with government officials speaking out against the harmful chemicals, Millions of Americans across the nation, but specifically today in Sioux Falls, NY, Willow Grove PA, and Pittsford, MI are being poisoned by their corporate neighbors, because thousands of companies that make PFAS or use PFAS have no incentive to keep us safe.