Dear Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, and Leader McCarthy:
On behalf of the undersigned organizations, members of the Power of the Purse Coalition, we write requesting your support for advancing a number of initiatives in the 117th Congress to strengthen the legislative branch’s constitutional authority over the federal government’s purse strings.
Lawmakers in both parties have reacted with alarm and chagrin in recent years when Presidents from both parties have overstepped the bounds of their executive power. Our organizations represent many different positions on the ideological spectrum, but we formed this coalition based on a firm belief that the erosion of congressional capacity and authority to the aggrandizement of the executive branch is a nonpartisan problem requiring bipartisan solutions.
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One more building block to fit into their foundation of one world order if these pass. What times we live in! Looking forward to a time when the only “King” or “Ruler” is God Almighty our loving creator! I appreciate the persistence in continuing the good work needed to maintain a balanced, righteous, peace-loving nation (and world!). God bless us all and help us to remain humble and compassionate with a quiet, never-ending strength to overcome the forces of evil. Reply 1 month ago
As far as I am concerned, politicians only deal with half-truths and the balance in lies. Watch the airing of Mike Lindell’s Video of “Absolute Truth” then convince me the election was ligament.
Dear Member of Congress,
On behalf of millions of taxpayers across the country, we urge you to reject proposals to increase the federal minimum wage at a time of unprecedented economic calamity, including President Joe Biden’s push to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour, more than doubling the current minimum wage of $7.25/hour.
President Biden’s recent $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” calls on Congress to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15/hour and eliminate the “tipped” minimum wage for servers. The Biden proposal likely mirrors legislation passed by the House in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021, the Raise the Wage Act, which increases the minimum wage to $15 by 2025, indexes it to inflation, and repeals the tipped minimum wage for servers.
Pete Buttigieg walks back comments about gas tax increase by Jeremy Lott Print this article
Pete Buttigieg, President Biden s likely incoming transportation secretary, admitted in his Jan. 21 Senate confirmation hearings that raising the federal excise tax on gasoline was one option under consideration to pay for the administration s proposed infrastructure projects.
Buttigieg s aides quickly walked that statement back, saying that although a variety of options were being batted around, increasing the gas tax is not among them.
If Buttigieg and the Biden administration hold to that commitment, it will make funding their infrastructure plans harder. Much of the interstate system is nearing the end of its functional life and will need to be completely rebuilt over the next two decades. Cost estimates for this undertaking are above $1 trillion, Marc Scribner, a transportation policy analyst for the Reason Foundation, told the