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Who really funds the billionaire-hating senator? Soros, Gates and the Rockefeller Brothers.

Cutting unemployment benefits? Check. Protecting low corporate tax rates? Double check.

Democrats: Minimum wage isn't the only issue facing parliamentarian Naomi Jagoda © Greg Nash Democrats: Minimum wage isn't the only issue facing parliamentarian Democratic senators on Thursday said that they don't know if the Senate parliamentarian will allow the final version of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package to include a provision that would direct the Treasury Department to make advance payments of the child tax credit (CTC) on a monthly basis. The version of the relief package that the House is expected to pass this week would direct Treasury to establish ...

The provision on monthly payments of the CTC is not the only part of the relief package that MacDonough will be examining in the coming days to ensure they adhere to Senate rules. Most prominently, she will have to determine whether a provision to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour follows the rules. In addition to directing Treasury to make advance payments of the CTC, the relief package also would increase the CTC amount for 2021 from $2,000 to $3,600 for children under age 6 and $3,000 for other children, and it would make the credit fully refundable so that the lowest-income household...