Washington Post - It is hard to believe the White House and progressives offered to cut their key legislative package in half (from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion) to accommodate Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) without first reaching an agreement that what’s left of the package would pass. But that appears to have been the case. Now,…
Tax and Budget
Daily News - Sen. Lindsey Graham said he now thinks that President Biden's Build Back Better bill is 'dead forever' after Democrats announced that they are tabling the legislation until after Christmas. Read the full article. The South Carolina Republican said that the Congressional Budget Office score, which found the $1.75 trillion bill would add $3 trillion to the…
Daily Mail - Progressives are grumbling that Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has likely stalled passage of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill until next year. Read the full article. 'God bless Sen. Manchin, but he does love to keep everyone guessing until the very end,' Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal said Wednesday. Rep. Cori Bush,…
Public News Service - As the deadline to pass the Build Back Better Act looms, West Virginia organizers are collecting stories from families in the Mountain State about why extending the Child Tax Credit through the legislation is critical. Read the full article. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is one of the major critics of the bill due to concerns…
Texas News Today - President Joe Biden encouraged the Senate to perform a sudden switch to voting rights legislation after his hopes of passing his signature Build Back Better plan by Christmas faded. Read the full article. Biden spoke out after Democrat rebel Senator Manchin appeared to kill chances of the $1.75 trillion bill passing in the…
Daily Mail - Rebel Democratic Senator Joe Manchin snapped on Wednesday after reports his opposition to the Child Tax Credit killed Joe Biden's hopes for the Senate to pass the president's signature Build Back Better bill by Christmas. Read the full article. 'This is b******t. You're b******t,' the West Virginia senator yelled at Arthur Delaney, a…
CNN Business - The monthly child tax credit from the federal government has buoyed low-income families. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich speaks with two families in West Virginia at risk of food insecurity if the Build Back Better bill isn't passed. Watch the full segment.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Last month I traveled to New York for my birthday on my first trip since COVID hit. Read the full op-ed.
Charleston Gazette-Mail, Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Bolstered by another month of strong severance tax collection, the ongoing influx of billions of dollars of federal pandemic stimulus funds and plain old good timing, West Virginia tax collection for November came in at $435.6 million, or $88.03 million higher than projected, figures released by the Senate Finance Committee…
Business Insider - On Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia didn't commit to approving the one-year child tax credit expansion as it's laid out in the $2 trillion House-approved social spending package. It raises the prospect of further changes to the proposed cash benefit. "Everybody's still talking," Manchin told Insider. "Everybody's still talking and…