Biden is using his infrastructure plan to take aim at Trump's signature economic achievement: His corporate tax cuts.
The plan calls for $2 trillion in new spending, and to defray its cost, his plan would roll back Trump’s cut in the corporate tax rate. politico.com/news/2021/03/3…
Biden's proposals also call for hundreds of billions of dollars for investments in clean infrastructure, though some environmental advocates say it's too modest to address a global emergency politico.com/news/2021/03/3…
Democrats are bracing for a brutal slog to actually pass the plan, as leaders juggle competing wishlists from Dems and a GOP with no appetite for tax hikes politico.com/news/2021/03/3…
Meanwhile, the rollout of the biggest infrastructure package in at least five decades has already sparked a lobbying frenzy in Washington politico.com/news/2021/03/3…
The plan reflects several of Biden’s major priorities: combating climate change and dedicating aid under certain programs to disadvantaged communities politi.co/3m6RVcp
"It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out," Biden said when he unveiled the plan in Pittsburgh, PA. politi.co/3m6RVcp
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In today's hearing, Mark Zuckerberg offered his most detailed proposal to date for tweaking the tech industry’s liability protections, while the Twitter and Google CEOs have urged lawmakers to show restraint politico.com/news/2021/03/2…
Sen. Raphael Warnock said today that the man suspected of killing 8 people in attacks on 3 separate Atlanta-area spas — including 6 people of Asian descent and 7 women — was driven by “hate” to commit the acts of violence. politico.com/news/2021/03/1…
Warnock added that he was “more interested in hearing the stories of the victims” killed in the attacks Tuesday on Young’s Asian Massage Parlor, Aromatherapy Spa and Gold Spa. “That’s really what we ought to be amplifying, their humanity,” he said. politi.co/2OZTJaN
Lawmakers convened a hearing today on violence against Asian Americans that quickly devolved into partisan politics.
“My concern about this hearing is that it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society,” said Rep. Chip Roy. politi.co/2OZTJaN
The deadly shootings in the Atlanta area yesterday come against the backdrop of a wave of hate crimes against Asian Americans in the U.S.
“A crime against any community is a crime against us all,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom said. politico.com/news/2021/03/1…
Rep. Judy Chu condemned Trump, saying he “stoked the flames of xenophobia against AAPIs with his rhetoric” in calling Covid-19 the “China virus” and “Kung Flu” politi.co/3rVqTqI
In 2012, the Obama-era FTC spent 19 months investigating Google over allegations it violated antitrust law, favoring its own products over rivals’ in search results.
Ultimately, the FTC misread evidence in front of them – and voted against taking action. politico.com/thegooglefiles
Since then, Google has continued to amass power over smartphones, data-hoovering devices and wide swaths of the internet, unimpeded by laws meant to deter monopolies politico.com/thegooglefiles
The FTC has never disclosed the scope of its probe nor explained all its reasons for letting Google slide. But we obtained 312 pages of confidential memos that reveal what lawyers and economics experts were thinking at the time.
At least nine New York House members have called on embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign. It's a dramatic escalation in the push to remove the governor from office amid allegations of sexual misconduct. politico.com/news/2021/03/1…
Members of Congress calling for Cuomo to resign include:
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
Mondaire Jones
Carolyn Maloney
Jerry Nadler
Adriano Espaillat
Nydia Velazquez
Yvette Clarke
Grace Meng
New York Attorney General Tish James is conducting an investigation into the allegations made against Cuomo in recent weeks, an effort being led by a pair of outside attorneys politico.com/news/magazine/…