President Biden went big in his $6.8 trillion annual budget proposal to Congress by calling for $5 trillion in tax increases over the next decade, more than what lawmakers expected after the president downplayed his tax agenda in earlier meetings. It's a risky move for the president as he heads into a tough re-election campaign in 2024. |
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The White House branded the House Freedom Caucus' deficit plan as "tax breaks for the super wealthy and wasteful spending for special interests," as the two sides continued to trade jabs amid an escalating debt ceiling battle. "MAGA House Republicans are proposing, if spread evenly across affected discretionary programs, at least a 20 [percent] across the board cut," White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt said in an initial analysis of the proposal. |
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Republicans are using their new control of the House and Democrats' slim majority in the Senate to target Biden administration regulations governing everything from retirement savings to water policy. While Biden has the ability to veto their resolutions of disapproval and leave his administration's work intact, taking these votes does give the GOP an additional platform to address what they've described as burdens on industry and "woke" financial policy. |
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Former President Trump says parents should elect principals and the Department of Justice should be involved in school discipline for troublesome students. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noam have moved to curtail the teaching of critical race theory. |
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Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) warned that former President Trump's legal troubles could become a "distraction" for the 2024 contender, especially if indicted. "It's out of respect for the institution of the presidency of the United States," Hutchinson said, adding that Trump should think about pulling his bid if the Manhattan district attorney moves forward with charges. |
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Walgreens, the nation's second-largest pharmacy chain, has found itself embroiled in the abortion battle after confirming that they will not dispense abortion pills in certain states, even in some where it's still legal to do so. The move has churned up a storm of political outrage in Congress and among Democratic state leaders, who said they were concerned about a slippery slope. |
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The Mississippi legislation that critics have slammed as a "Jim Crow" bill has taken a turn after the state Senate passed it with a couple of amendments that would both expand its scope and maintain a level of city government jurisdiction over Jackson. |
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The kidnapping of four American health care tourists in Mexico, which resulted in two of their deaths, has rattled an already shaky political detente across the Rio Grande, setting off tit-for-tat accusations between GOP hawks in Congress and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. |
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A major breakthrough in international diplomacy was announced when Saudi Arabia and Iran revealed that they had agreed to resume normalized relations in a deal brokered by China. The plan will return Saudi Arabia and Iran to normalized relations after the kingdom cut ties with the other nation in 2016, and will likely have lasting effects throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world. |
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OPINION | The catalyst for clean energy investment has always been a mix of regulatory "sticks" and industrial policy "carrots." For now, industrial policy is on the ascent. |
BY GREGORY F. TREVERTON AND PARI ESFANDIARI |
OPINION | 5G, the fifth-generation standard for broadband cellular networks, will soon appear on our phones if it hasn't already. Its potential is stunning, faster speed and shorter latency — the gap between data receipt and transfer… If smartphones changed our personal lives in ways we could not predict, 5G could change our societies and shape our future beyond our imaginations. |
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"Make no mistake about it, what happened that day was a disgrace," the former vice president said at Washington's annual Gridiron Dinner. |
Some of the unflattering private messages among the network's hosts and executives may never become evidence when Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News goes to trial. |
BY ERIC WALLERSTEIN, MATT GROSSMAN AND GREGORY ZUCKERMAN |
Shares of regional banks tumble amid concern that SVB's collapse is only the beginning. |
The Colorado Republican Party on Saturday selected a combative former state representative who promised to be a "wartime" leader as its new chairman, joining several other state GOPs this year that have elected far-right figures and election conspiracy theorists to their top posts. |
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