The business tax credits in the Wyden-Smith deal are five times as generous as the Child Tax Credit expansion, according to government scorekeepers.
Democrats
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Ambassador for Crypto
Sean Patrick Maloney, an adviser to Coinbase, is nominated as the U.S. representative to the OECD, which is building regulatory frameworks for crypto.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Manchin Staffers Cash In With Big Oil
The West Virginia senator’s longtime press aide’s move to ExxonMobil is the latest in a long line of revolving-door spinners.
Posted inPolitics
The Left Behind
The cultural rifts between urban and rural America are a constant of our history. When they also become economic, they become dangerous.
Posted inPolitics
President Biden’s Speech to Black Americans Won’t Bring Them Home—Yet
Is it time for Biden to be Biden?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Ten Percent of the Way to a Deal on the Child Tax Credit
The minor tweak proposed to the CTC is less important than what the Democrats want to do after the Trump tax cuts expire in 2025.
Posted inPolitics
Cenk Uygur Fights the Natural-Born Citizen Restriction
He argues that the 14th Amendment allows him, a naturalized citizen, to serve as president. There’s a larger question at stake here about perfecting our Constitution.
Posted inPolitics
First They Came for Harvard
The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.
Posted inPolitics
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Mike Johnson got almost precisely the same appropriations deal as Kevin McCarthy.
