Infrastructure

The Treasury Department on Wednesday released a report detailing President Biden Joe Biden Biden taps California workplace safety leader to head up OSHA Romney blasts end of filibuster, expansion of SCOTUS US mulling cash payments to help curb migration MORE ’s proposals to increase corporate taxes to fund infrastructure investments. Department officials said the proposals would raise about $2.5 trillion over 15 years and fully offset the cost of the new infrastructure spending. During a call with reporters, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Janet Louise Yellen Five takeaways from Biden's first budget proposal Biden defense budget criticized by Republicans, progressives alike Biden proposes .2B increase in IRS budget MORE argued that the plan will be beneficial for both the federal government and businesses. ADVERTISEMENT “Tax reform is not a zero-sum game, with corporations on one side and government on the other. There are … [Read more...] about Biden seeks $2.5T in corporate tax hikes to fully pay for infrastructure

Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA), the House Republican chief deputy whip, told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement Friday that Democrats stuffing the $2.5 trillion coronavirus bill would not garner Republican support for the legislation. President Joe Biden said Friday he expects to get support from Republicans on the American Jobs Plan, or what Ferguson calls “Biden’s so-called infrastructure plan.” Biden said : I think we’re going to be able to get — I’m hoping we will have some bipartisan support across the board. I’ve already spoken to some of my Republican colleagues about dealing with the infrastructure legislation we have up there, as well as other budget items. So we’re going to work on seeing if we can get some bipartisan support across the board here. As the GOP deputy whip, Ferguson is well tapped into the sentiment within the House Republican Conference. Ferguson said the infrastructure bill fails to revitalize America’s infrastructure while funding leftist … [Read more...] about Exclusive – Rep. Drew Ferguson: Stuffing Infrastructure Bill with Green New Deal, ‘Liberal Wish List’ Will Not Garner GOP Support

Giovanna Gray Lockhart is an adviser to Paid Leave for the US (PL+US), and organization that advocates for paid family and medical leave for everyone in the US. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN) You've heard these phrases before or may have used them yourself. "My mom is the rock of our family." "I wouldn't be where I am today without my grandmother." "My mom and dad worked two jobs so their kids could go to college." After more than a year spent separated from our families, these thoughts might give you a feeling of warmth or a twinge of longing. Giovanna Gray Lockhart Here's another way to look at them. The support that family caregivers provide to others who work and study outside the home is quiet, mostly invisible and mostly by women. It also forms the bedrock of many people's lives. It's what allows them to leave the home to work and go to college and support … [Read more...] about Biden is right: Caregiving is part of our nation’s infrastructure

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that housing is “human infrastructure” and that for him, infrastructure includes having an educated workforce, which means “all of our kids should have the ability to get a higher education, not leave school deeply in debt.” And means having a healthy society, and America’s life expectancy suffers “because we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people.” Sanders said, “[W]e’ve got to take a broad look at what infrastructure means, human infrastructure for ordinary people. Human infrastructure means housing. You’ve got a half a million people in this country who are homeless. You’ve got 19 million households who are spending 50% of their limited incomes on housing. We need to build housing. And by the way, when you deal with housing, you create jobs. … When I talk about infrastructure, it means if a worker, a mom and dad are going to work, they have the … [Read more...] about Sanders: Infrastructure Includes Housing, Guaranteed Health Care, Dealing with College Debt

President Biden Joe Biden Biden taps California workplace safety leader to head up OSHA Romney blasts end of filibuster, expansion of SCOTUS US mulling cash payments to help curb migration MORE ’s infrastructure plan and a surge in coronavirus cases in Michigan are the issues expected to dominate the Sunday news circuit. Democrats indicated they will most likely split up Biden’s infrastructure plan into two separate bills, though the overall plan will include funding for projects like roads, bridges and public transit as well as child care, elder care and family tax credits. The first portion, which has a price tag of roughly $2.25 trillion, has already faced opposition from Republicans, who say the package is too expensive and contorts the parameters of what infrastructure plans are supposed to cover. Sen. Roy Blunt Roy Dean Blunt DC delegate pushes for removing Capitol fence despite car attack Coons says bipartisan infrastructure package … [Read more...] about Sunday shows preview: Democrats eye two-part infrastructure push; Michigan coronavirus cases surge