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A basic income program funded by descendants of slave owners provides $1,000 a month as a form of reparations
The descendants of slave owners are funding a basic income program in Louisiana that they view as a…
Katie Balevic
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Millionaires like Abigail Disney are calling on Congress to tax them more: 'If I'm being singled out for additional taxes, it's precisely and only because I have the capacity to pay them.'
Congress is renegotiating a spending package to pass some of Biden's economic agenda. A group of mi…
Juliana Kaplan
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Senate Democrats want to beef up Medicare by closing a tax break currently used by the rich
Democrats are still ironing out how to pay for other parts of a $1 trillion bill, like clean energy…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Senate Democrats take the first step to reviving their stalled economic agenda with Manchin onboard
Democrats are advancing legislation to slash prescription drug prices. Other parts of the bill like…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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A House Democrat plans to introduce a bill that would hit AR-15s with a 1,000% tax and it could pass Congress without GOP votes
A string of mass shootings in New York, Texas, and Oklahoma is causing Rep. Don Beyer to seek an ag…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Joe Manchin says cutting drug prices is the 'one thing' Democrats must achieve in 2022. Bernie Sanders agrees.
Sen. Sanders swiped at Manchin and pushed him to back the larger bill he sunk last year, which cont…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Democrats are set to slash Biden's $300 billion plan to build millions of homes - all in the middle of a historic housing shortage
Biden's $3.5 trillion social-spending plan is set to be cut to about $2 trillion. Housing funds are…
Ben Winck
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This jarring chart shows Biden's economic agenda is a tiny fraction of what the US government will spend over the next decade
The CBO projects that the US will spend about twice as much on the military over the next decade th…
Andy Kiersz,Juliana Kaplan
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5 battles to watch as Democrats gear up for the biggest week of Biden's presidency
Democrats plan to spend trillions, tax the wealthy, and dodge a potentially catastrophic recession …
Ben Winck
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AOC slams Biden for prematurely celebrating his infrastructure win: 'Messaging it as a solution alone is going to get us into trouble'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was one of six Democrats who voted against the infrastructure bill, but Bi…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden has faith he will finally get Joe Manchin's vote on his $1.75 trillion economic agenda: 'I believe that Joe will be there'
"He will vote for this if we have in this proposal what he has anticipated," Biden said of Manchin …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Democrats are preparing to reverse a Trump-era tax move - and it could cut taxes for America's wealthiest residents
Taxpayers are capped in how much they can deduct for state and local taxes. Bernie Sanders says he …
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballo…
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Nancy Pelosi pulls the plug on a House vote for Biden's infrastructure bill for the second time as progressives threatened to sink it
Pelosi wanted to pass the infrastructure bill to give Biden a major policy win but ended up yanking…
Ayelet Sheffey,Joseph Zeballo…
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Biden is heading to a meeting of world leaders with a massive new effort to fight the climate crisis - the biggest investment in his scaled-down $1.75 trillion spending plan
The $555 billion investment is "the largest effort to combat climate change in American history," t…
Ayelet Sheffey
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After Joe Manchin tanked Biden's major clean-energy plan, the president still wants to spend $555 billion to fight the climate crisis
It's the biggest part of Biden's social spending framework as he heads to the UN climate summit in …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Kyrsten Sinema voices support for minimum corporate tax, breathing life into key funding source for Biden's agenda
A higher corporate tax, which Sinema reportedly opposed in recent weeks, would raise hundreds of bi…
Ben Winck
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Free community college is on the chopping block, but this Michigan Democrat has a message: 'We're going to fight right up to the closing whistle' to get it in the package
Although Biden said free community college is out of Democrats' social-spending bill, Rep. Andy Lev…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden promises to pass free community college during his term - just not in Democrats' social-spending bill
Biden blamed Manchin and Sinema for the cuts, but told CNN: "I'm going to get it done. And if I don…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Joe Manchin taunts Bernie Sanders by making a zero with his hand during social spending negotiations: 'I'm comfortable with nothing'
Sen. Sanders wants to spend $3.5 trillion on Democrats' social spending bill, but Axios reported Se…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden says 'women are becoming - not a joke - better educated than men' as male college enrollment drops
Biden said he's "worried" about the drop in college enrollment for men, as women still continue to …