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Buttigieg hopes cruises will return by mid-summer Alex Gangitano © Getty Images Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks with reporters at the White House Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday that he's hopeful cruises will be operating again by the middle of summer 2021, following over a year of the industry being sidelined amid the coronavirus pandemic. "I certainty care a lot about seeing the cruise sector thrive. I know that the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] is hopeful that a lot of these operators will be in a position to be saili...

Corporate America: woke, tax-averse and in GOP crosshairs Send your tips and thoughts: [email protected], or G-20 — GLOBAL TAX STRUGGLE ON TODAY’S AGENDA: Digital taxation is one of the big issues on the docket of the G20’s virtual gathering today of finance ministers, in particular Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) efforts to introduce a global minimum corporate tax rate as a way to ensure digital giants are taxed. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen threw Washington’s weight behind the initiative Monday. The U.S. already has a similar initiative in p...

Biden Infrastructure Plan Draws Attacks From Right, Left © Andrew Harnik/Associated Press Powered by Microsoft News WASHINGTON—President Biden’s big infrastructure plan drew new criticism from the right and left on Sunday, underscoring the difficult road ahead for the $2.3 trillion effort. In a spate of Sunday television interviews, Republicans continued to criticize the size and sweep of the proposal unveiled Wednesday aimed at addressing climate change—as well as the corporate-tax hike proposed to pay for it. They also questioned the White House commitment to bipartisanship, saying...

Buttigieg: 'Now’s our chance' for infrastructure plan POLITICO 1 hr ago © Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo 210105_buttigieg_ap_773.jpg Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan would pay for itself while upgrading infrastructure from decades past. "Right now, we're still coasting off of infrastructure choices that were made in the 1950s," Buttigieg said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Now's our chance to make infrastructure choices for the future that are going to serve us well in the 2030s and on into the middle of the century." Biden unveil...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said during Sunday’s “Meet the Press” that the $2 trillion bill introduced by President Joe Biden represents a “a generational investment."