Democratic deal on the spending spree pushed off till tomorrow...
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Despite the lingering tensions, the mere specter of a deal left Democratic leaders confident enough to try to take the next step in advancing the package, which lawmakers say could cost closer to $1.75 trillion, roughly half of what they originally hoped to spend. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced they would hold a key procedural hearing in the House on Thursday, opening the door for lawmakers to bring the still-forming tax-and-spending measure to the chamber floor — that is, once they finish writing it. “Today, we move closer to passing the historic, transformative Build Back Better Act,” she said in a letter to Democrats. A deal before week’s end would amount to a symbolic achievement as Biden prepares to depart on a foreign tour. The president has sought to try to secure at least the outlines of a spending deal before heading to the Group of 20 meeting of world leaders in Rome this weekend, followed by an international climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, a day later. With the clock ticking, Biden is set to huddle privately with House Democrats at an early Thursday meeting, marking his second visit to the Hill in recent weeks, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. Ahead of the House call, White House press secretary Jen Psaki sounded a note of optimism, telling reporters that the White House and Democratic lawmakers “continued to make progress on finalizing details as we work toward an agreement.”
I have been saying this since Trump was elected President. And even before.
The modern Republican brainwashing plot is the latest outgrowth of McCarthyism.
John Stoehr
October 27, 2021
Three things need saying. One, that "critical race theory" is becoming the most destructive political boogeyman since Joseph McCarthy fear-mongered about Communists hiding behind every bush and tree.
Two, that this political boogeyman is being used by Republican state lawmakers to achieve what they have wanted — to use the power of the state to censor information and to police thought. We are close to updating the old Cold War pursuit of "un-American activities."
Three, that by censoring information and policing thought, the Republicans can replace knowledge and understanding with lies and propaganda advancing a preferred way of seeing America, to wit: In America, everyone gets a fair shake in life. Social ills like poverty and racism are individual failings, not societal ones. Everything is fine. Nothing to worry about. Except "those people" making trouble.
The desired outcome of such rhetoric, of course, is preempting serious and legit challenges to a social order in which white men are on top.
All of this is happening at the same time. It can be dizzying! But make no mistake. It is a backlash against the political gains made in the wake of George Floyd's murder. The movement against anti-Black white supremacy has been (somewhat) successful. The backlash is proof.
Now, remember. No one is learning critical race theory in K-12. That's what college students study if they choose to. What's being debated is make-believe. (Hence, my quotes around "critical race theory.") So when people like Glenn Youngkin, the GOP candidate for governor in Virginia, say they're going to ban "critical race theory," strictly speaking, that's not possible. "Critical race theory" doesn't exist.
But thanks to the efforts of Republicans and right-wing propagandists, there are now lots of things associated with "critical race theory" that have nothing to with critical race theory, without the quotes, and they pretty much include all discussion of race and racism that might make respectable white people conscious of their race, uncomfortable with heightened awareness of their race and even pained by the knowledge of a social, political and legal establishment that protects them on account of their race while punishing others on account of theirs.
So there's some highly coded rhetoric here. When Youngkin says he's going to ban "critical race theory," the message isn't that he's going to ban ways of thinking about and engaging the world, which is, in fact, what he's proposing, but instead "ban" the discomfort and pain respectable white people and their kids may feel as a consequence of the political gains made by Black activists after George Floyd's murder.
If we're very lucky, respectable white people — that great globular middle of American politics — will see the danger. They will see that, no matter how dangerous "critical race theory" is said to be, that's no reason to ban books and outlaw the utterance of individual words. They will see the Republicans, even at state and local levels, as being people like you Scott cheered the former president's attempted coup d'etat.
If we're very unlucky, however, respectable white people — those Americans who view politics through the gauzy lens of respectability between and among white people — will see the GOP as not censoring information and policing thought but instead "banning" Black people from making them feel the pain of being aware of being white. They will see the Republicans, especially at state and local levels, as being not so bad despite cheering the former president's attempted coup.
What to do? First, make it clear the Republicans are lying. No one, and I mean no one, is teaching white children to hate themselves. No one is teaching white children their moral character is determined by their race. No one is teaching white children that one race is superior to another. All of this is a lie that, when repeated often enough, becomes the basis for state laws forbidding such things from being taught. (See legislation passed by the Wisconsin Assembly for a case in point.)
Second, these lies are part of the Big Lie. Donald Trump lies when saying the election was stolen from him. It wasn't. What he means, however, is that people he believes should not have a say in American politics — nonwhite voters — had a say in American politics, and that's wrong. That's "fraud." This Big Lie dovetails with another big lie, which is the belief among authoritarian white people that the United States is being taken from them, being stolen from them. By whom? By those who should not have a say in American politics — nonwhite voters. When they pass laws against "voter fraud," what they mean is passing laws against the "fraud" that is nonwhite Americans having a say.
Third, these lies and the laws these lies are based on are spearheading myriad state and local efforts to do what Republican officials have wanted to do but did not have the chance or justification to do until respectable white people felt first a pang of discomfort on becoming increasingly aware of being white after George Floyd's murder.
Compulsory K-12 public education is the greatest tool the United States has devised for flattening the hierarchies of power that allow the Republicans to maintain an advantage in society. For decades, they endeavored to censor information and police thought among teachers and children for the purpose of keeping white men at the top of the order — for the purpose of replacing knowledge and understanding with lies and propaganda advancing a preferred way of seeing America, to wit: America is the best place in the world. Don't like it? Leave it.
Some even called for banning books and outlawing the utterance of individual words. That seemed extreme before Floyd's murder.
One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.
That’s what Dr. Deborah Birx told investigators with the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis during interviews on Oct. 12 and 13, according to excerpts of the interview transcripts released by the committee.
“I believe if we had fully implemented the mask mandates, the reduction in indoor dining, the getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and we had increased testing, we probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30 percent–less to 40 percent–less range,” Birx told the committee.
That accounts for more than 130,000 deaths, according to the committee.
Birx, a longtime public health official, was front and center in the Trump administration’s coronavirus response as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator from February 2020 through the end of his term in office.
Asked if Trump did as much as he could have in order to prevent loss of life, Birx responded: “No. And I’ve said that to the White House in general, and I believe I was very clear to the president in specifics of what I needed him to do.”
NBC REPORTS: Trump Still Trying to Keep Tax Returns Secret
“Lawyers for former president Donald Trump urged a federal judge late Tuesday to block the Treasury Department and the IRS from giving his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee."
VANITY FAIR REPORTS: “Is this because they contain evidence of fraud and other crimes? While we can‘t say for sure, it certainly seems like it, given the way he guards them like state secrets (and, y’know, the reports of him having committed fraud, which he has of course denied)." _______
He may be the first candidate we have ever had who tries to run for president from inside a prison.
Birx and Fauci were able to talk Trump out of "packing the churches for Easter," which would have been a MAJOR disaster, but they were not able to keep him from mishandling the pandemic so badly that it resulted in thousands and thousands of deaths that could have been prevented.
CNN: Brazilian commission votes in favor of recommending criminal charges against Bolsonaro By Rodrigo Pedroso October 27, 2021
Families of Brazilian Covid victims demand justice
Sao Paulo (CNN)A Brazilian commission investigating the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has called for criminal charges against President Jair Bolsonaro. [THE SAME SORT OF CHARGES SHOULD BE BROUGHT AGAINST TRUMP]
Seven of the commission's eleven senators voted to support the recommendations of a 1,288-page report into the crisis, which condemned the populist leader's actions.
The document calls for charges against two companies and 78 individuals, including Bolsonaro, over the pandemic's enormous toll on the country.
More than 605,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Brazil -- the second-highest number of deaths in the world after the United States.
The report alleges that Bolsonaro's government allowed the lethal virus to spread through the country in a failed bid to achieve herd immunity. [CH UN-TRUTH WAS ONCE ALL FOR ACHIEVING HED IMMUNITY IN OUR COUNTRY.]
It recommends indicting the president personally with nine crimes, including incitement to crime, charlatanism, and crimes against humanity.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly dismissed the commission's investigation and the resulting report as politically motivated.
The final document -- the result of six months of investigation -- will be sent to the Attorney General's Office, who will have 30 days to announce any measures. However, Attorney General Augusto Aras is considered an ally of the president and is not expected to pursue charges.
The commission is also expected to send a copy of the report to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
'Reckless' moves Commission rapporteur Senator Renan Calheiros first presented the report publicly last week. One of the document's main conclusions is that the Brazilian government, "omitted and opted to act in a non-technical and reckless manner in the fight against the pandemic"--"deliberately exposing the population to a concrete risk of mass infection."
The report also criticizes the government's discouragement of sanitary measures, including going against scientific advice including the use of social distancing and the use of masks, and denounces its push towards ineffective so-called treatments against Covid-19 such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
In scathing remarks on Tuesday, Calheiros said that while the report's findings attribute responsibility for the uncontrolled pandemic to many in Brazil, Bolsonaro bears the main culpability [AS TRIUMP DOES IN THE USA]
"It is (the responsibility) mainly of this president, this serial killer, who has a death compulsion and continues to repeat everything he has done before," Calheiros told reporters at a press conference. ----- SERIAL KILLER BOLSANARO. SERIAL KILLER TRUMP.
"President Jair Bolsonaro and I have become great friends over the past few years. He fights hard for, and loves, the people of Brazil — just like I do for the people of the United States. Brazil is lucky to have a man such as Jair Bolsonaro working for them. He is a great President and will never let the people of his great country down!" --Donald Trump, serial killer _________
He let thousands of Brazilians down into the ground just as you let thousands of Americans down into the ground.
Gallup regularly tracks Americans' ratings of national economic conditions as excellent, good, only fair or poor, and whether the economy is getting better or getting worse. The combined responses are used to create the Gallup Economic Confidence Index, which has a theoretical range of +100 (if all respondents say the economy is excellent or good and that it is getting better) to -100 (if all say it is poor and getting worse).
Before the eruption of COVID-19 in the U.S., confidence was high, registering +41 in February 2020, the best reading since 2000. By mid-March, as the U.S. began to deal with the spread of COVID-19, economic confidence had fallen to +22. Confidence bottomed out at -33 in the latter half of April amid widespread business and school closures in the U.S.
Since then, confidence has fluctuated but has not risen above the +2 recorded in April 2021. The current -25 reading is the lowest since -33 in April 2020 and -28 the next month, when unemployment was spiking. The index has now fallen at least marginally for four consecutive months.
The most recent dip in confidence is largely owing to a five-point increase in the percentage of Americans saying the economy is getting worse, from 63% to 68%. Independents' outlook has worsened, while Democrats' and Republicans' are essentially unchanged. In September, 63% of independents said economic conditions were getting worse, and in October, that grew to 72%.
Three-quarters of Americans rate current economic conditions in the country as only fair (42%) or poor (33%), and 68% say the economy is getting worse.
The Wall Street Journal should have its license to publish revoked after putting Trumps opinion letter into print without a single comment or warning about the lies included......The slurpers are drooling all over themselves as the letter confirms their own erroneous belief that donnie has a case for fraud were in reality every one of his claims are demonstrably false.....Lil Schtiiy et al will all circle the wagon and bullshit their way to rationalize the lies again....how sad that our big man in washington does not have enough blood to run 2 heads at the same time!!!!!!
BTW,,,,,,I am contemplating ending my WSJ subscription as my hope they were getting better was just shot to shit!!!!!
CRT is rascist and stupid, just like everyone who supports it.
During a recent talk, titled “Unpacking the Attacks on Critical Race Theory,” Cooper told writer Michael Harriot that when she attempts to teach critical race theory to college students, she asks if it’s possible to “legislate [racism] and march it away,” or if they think that “white people just always gonna be like this, and our job is to hold back their ability to do the most harm.”
Note the inability to speak grammatical English. Affirmative Action has had a devastating effect on the quality of higher education.
Consistent with the ideology she is paid to espouse, Professor Cooper really doesn’t like white people:
“The thing I want to say to you is ‘We gotta take these motherfuckers out,’ but, like, we can’t say that, right? I don’t believe in a project of violence, I truly don’t.”
CRT is racist and stupid, just like everyone who supports it.
Pretty accurate description of you rat......moon shot is a bigger joke than PJ>>>>>>>>>>BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Not hard for me to believe how you flunked out of Ag school with your incessant whining about everything.......
President Biden plans to announce Thursday a revised framework for his social spending plan that he expects will gain the support of all Democrats, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation, marking a potential breakthrough after months of lengthy negotiations and stalled talks. The White House plans to detail specific policies it expects to pass Congress after weeks of whittling down Biden’s agenda, according to one of the people. Democrats on Capitol Hill were preparing written details of the revamped proposal for release on Thursday, according to the second person.
The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans on the record. The White House declined to comment. Biden will address House Democrats Thursday morning before delivering remarks from the White House about the plan. Biden’s speech comes ahead of his planned trip to Rome later in the day to begin a pair of international summits.
----- ------- Speaker Pelosi will introduce the infrastructure plan on the floor of the house of Representatives today. She will not introduce it, if she isn't secure that it will pass with bipartisan support.
Interesting day
The new revised Build Back Better package will probably not get passed this year.
He is trying to get the liberal Democrats to agree to separate the two bills.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to unveil a framework Thursday for the legislation that congressional Democrats have been crafting to deliver on his social safety net agenda, NBC News has confirmed.
The White House expects full Democratic support for the proposal, which has been whittled down from his initial request at the center of legislative agenda.
Biden is expected to travel to Capitol Hill to huddle behind closed doors in the morning with House Democrats to discuss the package. He is then expected to deliver remarks at the White House in the late morning and is scheduled to leave for his trip to Europe in the mid-afternoon.
Biden to announce new social spending framework expected to win support of all Dems: WaPo
The news was first reported by The Washington Post.
It’s unclear exactly what is in the overall agreement, but NBC News reported Wednesday that Democrats dropped a proposal for paid family and medical leave from the spending package after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., expressed opposition. Biden had originally proposed 12 weeks of paid leave, then last week it was reduced to four weeks before it was eliminated altogether.
Democrats have said that the bill would provide an extension of the child tax credit and funding for childcare centers. The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, said Wednesday that the legislation would also include funding for housing and vouchers, historically Black colleges and universities and coverage for more seniors and Medicaid recipients.
The White House wanted at least a deal on the measure’s framework before Biden leaves for Europe because he doesn’t want to appear empty-handed at the G20 summit in Rome and the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
WHITE HOUSEBiden set to meet with House Democrats after paid family leave dropped from spending bill
Democrats have said that the bill had to be dramatically cut from the original $3.5 trillion proposal. Biden told progressives last week that he was considering a price range of $1.75 trillion to $1.9 trillion for the final package.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been aiming to hold a vote Thursday on the $550 billion Senate-passed infrastructure measure, but progressives have insisted that the larger social safety net bill proceed in tandem with the infrastructure package.
Typical source dumb fuck R's from NY use to support their bias....As I suspected....another POS conspiracy minded source for the demented right leaning R's!!!!
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By Tess Homan October 28 at 3:45 AM PDT 1. President Biden plans to announce a revised social spending package today. The president expects all Democrats will support this new version after weeks of back-and-forth over how to shrink the trillion-dollar plan.
We don’t know yet what policies made the cut. As of last night, paid leave looked like it was on the chopping block.
In yesterday's Senate hearing, Ted Cruz absolutely tore AG Garland a new asshole in his questioning. And rightly so. It's worth the 10 minutes to watch it.
In yesterday's Senate hearing, Ted Cruz absolutely tore AG Garland a new asshole in his questioning. And rightly so. It's worth the 10 minutes to watch it.
As did Cotton and Hawley.
Garland is just one more chapter in the Shit-fingered Midas legacy of Skeets Hussein 0linsky. The guy who laughingly warned us of Stairmaster Joe's ability to fuck things up.
Garland is just one more chapter in the Shit-fingered Midas legacy of Skeets Hussein 0linsky. The guy who laughingly warned us of Stairmaster Joe's ability to fuck things up.
And fuck things up he has.
watching him was like watching when Mueller testified.
and probably like Biden would look if he ever had to sit down and take hostile questions
Old empty suits put in their jobs so others can run the show
Merrick Garland’s Justice Department has catalogued 13 federal crimes for which parents could be prosecuted for speaking out at school board meetings - but Garland says he doesn’t have time to review his Department’s own plans
the left currently splitting hairs over just how much a girl was asking to be raped in bathroom at school, looking to land blows against "right wing reporters" after Biden WH colluded w/school boards to sicc FBI on parents like victims Dad & Obama dubbed it all phony culture war.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the leader of the House progressives, “said Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC she had convinced her members to accept an infrastructure vote without a Senate vote on the reconciliation package — as long as the bills still moved together in the House,” Politico reports.
July through September GDP report the worst since the US economy began its recovery from the #coronavirus pandemic, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Donnie Jr proving that the apple is rotten to its core......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Who would hire that fucking imbecile if his daddy wasn't rich?????? LOLOLOLOL BTW....that cunt he dates could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch!!!!!!!
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS: Biden to Announce New Social Spending Framework
“President Biden plans to announce Thursday a revised framework for his social spending plan that he expects will gain the support of all Democrats, marking a potential breakthrough after months of lengthy negotiations and stalled talks.
“The specifics of what the president would announce were not immediately clear, nor was it clear whether he would be prepared to announce the support of key Democratic holdouts."
Biden is coming to the Hill. Now what? ... Biden will announce a framework this morning, the Washington Post’s Tyler Pager and Sean Sullivan report, though it’s unclear what will be in the framework yet, let alone whether it has the support of key senators. There’s some skepticism. One source tells your fill-in host that Manchin and Sinema agreed to a general framework but have not yet committed to voting on a final bill — with open questions on the legislation too.
Many liberals are balking at a slew of cuts to the package on everything from paid leave to a proposed tax on billionaires — many of which they’ve been waiting years to enact. Prescription drug reform and Medicare expansion are also in flux. So instead of coalescing around a framework, progressives are again vowing to block Biden’s infrastructure package ahead of the Oct. 31 highway program deadline.
In the House, at least 30 liberals say they’re willing to vote against infrastructure until they see an ironclad commitment from the other side of the Capitol to pass the reconciliation bill. "And that number is only increasing," warned Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on Wednesday, a day after many of those frustrated members huddled to discuss tactics. One such member, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), reiterated her need for the bills to be linked in a Wednesday evening Twitter thread.
Still, there’s been some sign of a shift in liberals’ hardball tactics. Jayapal said Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC she had convinced her members to accept an infrastructure vote without a *Senate* vote on the reconciliation package — as long as the bills still moved together in the House.
Stay tuned: The House Rules Committee is expected to meet Thursday to at least begin to take up the spending plan, though it hasn’t been formally announced. And House Rules Chair Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told reporters Wednesday that the panel will need legislative text before they can actually wrap it up and report out the rule: “What I need is text. Some text, maybe not the whole bill, but we need to be able to start the hearing on what has been agreed upon."
If all this is sounding familiar... that’s because it’s only been 27 days since Biden’s last trip to the Hill amid a very similar standoff. He told House Democrats the infrastructure bill wouldn’t happen until agreement was reached on the social spending bill, and also floated a smaller topline amount for the social spending legislation. His announcement on timing made liberals happy but shocked others, including moderates who had been pushing for a vote on the infrastructure bill that week. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/huddle/2021/10/28/biden-is-coming-to-the-hill-now-what-494886
I wonder why roger left all but that little paragraph off ???
THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS: “Details were still unclear on the precise shape of the package, but people familiar with the president’s plan said he would use a 9 a.m. meeting of the House Democratic Caucus to try to convince liberal members that a final deal was close enough to allow them to support a separate, $1 trillion infrastructure bill that has already passed the Senate.”
Washington — President Biden is unveiling a revamped social policy and climate change plan Thursday that the White House expects will make sweeping changes to American society and hopes to pass with overwhelming Democratic Party support.
The White House released details of the plan as the president prepared to leave Thursday for Europe to attend two major global summits and leave the work of passing the new $1.75 trillion proposal, plus the bipartisan infrastructure plan awaiting final passage in the House, up to top congressional leaders who've struggled to wrangle the disparate wings of the Democratic Party over the course of the protracted negotiations.
"We are confident that this historic framework will earn the support of every Democratic senator and pass the House," a senior administration official told reporters early Thursday.
A congressional aide familiar with the ongoing negotiations said Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, two key moderate Democrats whose support for the plan is crucial, have "loosely" agreed to a general, broad framework, but will not yet commit to supporting the bill.
Many Democrats, including progressives in the House, have insisted on seeing the legislative text of the measure before agreeing to pass the more targeted $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which revamps the nation's roads, bridges, rails and water lines.
The president planned to share more details of the plan with House Democrats on Capitol Hill on Thursday morning and address the nation around 11:30 a.m. ET, before departing for Rome where he is scheduled to arrive later tonight ahead of a Friday meeting with Pope Francis in Vatican City.
Sleepy Joe is going to drive the troll squad asshole crazy mothrf***r websites like I love Trump
Funny steve harmon fails to mention the Delta covid spike that affected the GDP Typical of fucked up posting only part of the story that GDP is predicted to rise in the quarter, probably better than trumps #'s BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!
of COVID-19 cases resulted in new restrictions and delays in the reopening of establishments in some parts of the country," the Bureau of Economic Analysis said in its release on Thursday. "In the third quarter, government assistance payments in the form of forgivable loans to businesses, grants to state and local governments, and social benefits to households all decreased."
Senior administration officials said that the measure will total about $1.75 trillion in funding, which they described as “the most transformative investment in children's caregiving in generations, the largest effort to combat climate change in history, an historic tax cut for tens of millions of middle-class families and the biggest expansion of affordable health care in decades.”
The latest version does not appear to include funding for paid family leave, a piece that had been a priority for many Democrats, including several women lawmakers.
White House officials said that the measure will be fully paid for through new taxes and reduce the deficit by generating about $2 trillion in revenue through an array of changes to the tax system. Officials stressed that no one making less than $400,000 will have their taxes raised.
The measure will provide for six years of universal free preschool for all three and four-year-olds, extend the child tax credit that was originally implemented by a previous coronavirus rescue package and reduce premiums by an average of $600 per year for more than nine million Americans who buy insurance through the Obamacare marketplace, the officials said.
Notably, the officials said that in addition to closing a Medicaid coverage gap, they also said that the framework would expand Medicare coverage to include hearing services. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had also been pushing for expanding Medicare to cover vision and dental services as well.
The legislation, they said, will also aim to start cutting climate pollution and put the U.S. on a track to reduce emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030. It would provide clean energy tax credits and an electric vehicle tax credit that would lower the cost of an electric vehicle by up to $12,500 per middle-class family, the officials said.
Biden heads to Europe later today, where he will meet with other world leaders in Scotland to discuss climate, giving him an element of his agenda to tout.
Officials said that the bill will make the “single largest and most comprehensive investment in affordable housing history,” extend the earned income tax credit for 17 million low-wage workers and provide funding for Historic Black Colleges and Universities.
While the bill doesn’t provide for a path to citizenship, the officials said that it would allocate $100 billion toward reducing immigration backlogs and expanding legal representation.
To pay for the bill, the framework will raise taxes on the highest-income Americans by creating a surtax on the incomes of multimillionaires and billionaires, said officials, who added that it would also invest in the IRS to ensure that wealthy Americans are paying the taxes that they owe.
They also said that the legislation would impose a 15 percent minimum tax on corporate profits that large corporations with more than a billion in profits report to their shareholders and a 1 percent tax on stock buybacks. To punish companies that ship their profits overseas, the bill would impose a 50 percent minimum tax on foreign profits of U.S. corporations.
As far as the proposals that have been scrapped, officials said that they weren’t able to agree on provisions that would give Medicare the authority to negotiate drug prices for Americans.
NBC News reported Wednesday that Democrats dropped a proposal for paid family and medical leave from the spending package after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., expressed opposition. Biden had originally proposed 12 weeks of paid leave, then last week it was reduced to four weeks before it was eliminated altogether.
White House officials voiced confidence Thursday morning that the framework would earn the support of all 50 senators in the Democratic caucus and pass the House.
I wonder why roger left all but that little paragraph off ???
Oh that totally misleading extracted paragraph was from:
A Shift In Liberals’ Hardball Tactics? October 28, 2021 at 7:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 60 Comments
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the leader of the House progressives, “said Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC she had convinced her members to accept an infrastructure vote without a Senate vote on the reconciliation package — as long as the bills still moved together in the House,” Politico reports.
“The last time Virginia and New Jersey elected governors in 2017, then-President Donald Trump was nowhere to be found. With his approval rating below 40 percent, neither GOP nominee wanted him anywhere near their campaigns.
“Fast forward four years and Joe Biden’s poll numbers aren’t much better. Yet Democrats have welcomed Biden on the campaign trail. Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe and New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy both appeared on stage with him this week.”
“The speaker knows how to count votes,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). “I don't think she's going to bring it for a vote until she knows she can win it, and she has Pramila and a few others clearly on board.”
And they’re getting support from liberal allies in the Senate.
“A framework is part of getting to a final bill, but I’m not OK with the infrastructure bill being passed out of the House until we actually have a bill in the Senate,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.).
The President has a plan that will get Merkley on board today.
Glenn Greenwald https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1453067534861836289 As I wrote yesterday, almost every group that purports to fight "extremism" and "disinformation" online is funded by the same small handful of like-minded liberal billionaires and western security state services
add in others such as the BEZO's blog (the Washington Post) the Chinese mouthpiece the New York Times and the Job's widow the Atlantic and you have billionaires controlling America's information flow
Is this because they contain evidence of fraud and other crimes?
it is a matter of privacy. How would you like your political opponents wading through your tax returns and releasing selected parts of the return just to damage you.
How ways and means must demonstrate a compelling interest far more that a regular subpoena. The government covenant with taxpayers is to keep personal financial documents confidential from the public, other agencies, and Congress.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THIS SAYS IT ALL
PLAYBOOK overheard the followig on Capitol Hill:
“Reps. Ann Wagner (R-MO) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) were at an event on Capitol Hill last Thursday. Standing by the bar, a person in their group asked about redistricting in Missouri and said he hoped Wagner gets a more conservative district to help her win reelection.”
Said Wagner skeptically: “Then you get those wacko birds.”
To which McCaul said: “That’s why we had to vote the way we did today!”
EXPLANATION: “That day, House Democrats and nine Republicans voted to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for ignoring a Jan. 6 committee subpoena.
Wagner and McCaul voted against the contempt effort.” __________
A clear admission that the GOP finds itself today having to vote WITH the "wacko birds" created by Trumpism.
I hate to admit it, but it really is from POLITICO.
FUCK OFF "pastor" james boswell, normal illinois
It's an extraction of their article without any reference to who is doing the extraction and it's not them. Could be just as misleading as the piece roger just posted from political_lire thru Politico. Total garbage of an extraction.
What a dishonest POS not acting anything like a pastor
8:35 I guess CommonUNsense has forgotten that when Trump began running for President, he promised to release his tax returns, as all other recent candidates for President have done, a promise he never kept.
So will they actually be able to announce they have a deal here? It doesn’t exactly sound like they’re there if the progressives are still objecting to the timing.
But if the progressives now hold up a vote on infrastructure, even with an alleged framework for the bigger reconciliation bill, the liberal anger is going to shift on them next.
So hold onto your hat and pull out the popcorn, we shall have to see where this lands.
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The liberals are on board and the reduced Build Back Better is getting the two Senators to support Sleepy Joe Biden
EXCLUSIVE: McAuliffe-Linked Law Firm Fighting Virginia Student Who Said She Was Gang-Raped
A law firm that employed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is being paid handsomely to fight victims of alleged sexual abuse in schools, on behalf of a school system that the girls say failed to protect them.
In one case the Hunton Andrews Kurth law firm, where McAuliffe served as a senior adviser from 2019 until recently, is battling a young woman who says that she was repeatedly raped on her Fairfax County middle school campus as a 12-year old and that she was slashed with a knife, burned with a lighter, anally penetrated, and gang raped.
The law firm and McAuliffe’s campaign did not return request for comment, but McAuliffe reported income apparently linked to the firm in 2021, after announcing his run for governor of Virginia on December 8, 2020. Later advertisements from the firm for McAuliffe fundraisers refer to him as a “former colleague.”
The girl in the middle school case said she was afraid of having her real name attached because one of her alleged tormentors had threatened to kill her if she came forward
continues with more cases: https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-mcauliffe-linked-law-firm-fighting-virginia-student-who-said-she-was-gang-raped
the candidate the "pastor" supports
He's his kind of man
Maybe the "pastor" doesn't know the "D" doesn't necessarily stand for demon
Is this because they contain evidence of fraud and other crimes?
it is a matter of privacy.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Yeah right....like he's a private citizen who constantly lies about his business!!!!!v He is now fighting to keep them from congress also.....sad he sure seems to be hiding something which assholes like you think is fine......IDIOT!!!
The girl in the middle school case said she was afraid of having her real name attached because one of her alleged tormentors had threatened to kill her if she came forward
So I guess she didn't appear at the Biden/McAuliffe rally ?
So this spending boondoggle started as $6T, is down to 1.75T with a dem party civil way breaking out. But the media will trumpet it as some grand success.
What You Need To KnowPresident Joe Biden is traveling to Capitol Hill to pitch
House Democrats on a dramatically scaled back domestic policy package The bill is now at $1.75 trillion and without a paid family leave program and other priorities, but it's still a sweeping proposal with new health care, free-prekindergarten and climate change programs. Including hearing aids and dental care and eye glasses.
Later, the president will make remarks at the White House.
The president has wanted to announce at least the framework of a deal before departing later Thursday on global summits.
WASHINGTON—President Biden released a new framework on the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion social-spending and climate package Thursday aimed at winning support of congressional Democrats locked in talks over his agenda.
Senior administration officials pitched the plan as a transformative step forward on expanding early childhood education and healthcare coverage and combating climate change, among other programs, but it also marks a scaling back of the administration’s agenda, with key tax increases and a plan to create a national paid leave program out of the framework. A plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices wasn’t included in the White House plan, but aides said they expect some provisions to be added during further congressional negotiations.
Mr. Biden addressed House Democrats Thursday morning to provide an update on the spending package and a parallel bipartisan infrastructure package that has been held up by progressives in the House. Mr. Biden will then deliver remarks from the White House, and one of the people familiar with the matter said he would provide a path forward on his economic agenda before departing for Italy.
“The president believes this framework will earn the support of all 50 Democratic senators and pass the House,” a senior administration official said, adding that the White House would defer to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on the specific timing of House votes on both pieces of legislation.
Whether the major policy concessions Mr. Biden made to centrists will be acceptable to progressive Democrats remains unclear. Mr. Biden is expected to tell Democrats that he trusts Sens. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.), two pivotal centrists in the talks, according to a person familiar with the plans. He is also expected to ask the House Democrats to vote later Thursday for a separate infrastructure package that progressives have balked at supporting until they can secure passage of the social welfare and climate bill, the person said.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Yeah right....like he's a private citizen who constantly lies about his business!!!!!
Well he is a private citizen but that's beside the point. The privacy covenant extends to all tax payers. If anything politicians need the covenant more that any other taxpayer.
The Democrats are trying to use the IRS for opposition research.
The EcoHealth Alliance, the American nonprofit that helped fund gain-of-function studies at the Wuhan lab, says pretty openly on its tax return that it spent $319,570 and $126,792 on "bat coronavirus emergence" research in China
Fauci lied
And since New York prosecutors have had Trump's tax returns for many months now you know it is a big nothingburger and just FAKE NEWS state media talking point for dems. Else it would already have "leaked".
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden traveled to Capitol Hill early Thursday to make the case to House Democrats for a dramatically scaled-back domestic policy package, $1.75 trillion of social services and climate change programs the White House believes can pass the 50-50 Senate.
Biden is eager to have a deal in hand before he departs later in the day for global summits, but the revised new package is losing some of Democrats' top priorities as the president's campaign ambitions make way for the political realities of the narrowly divided Congress.
A paid family leave and efforts to lower prescription drug pricing are now gone entirely from the package, according to senior administration officials who requested anonymity to brief reporters about the emerging details.
Still in the mix: Free prekindergarten for all youngsters, expanded health care programs — including the launch of a $35 billion new hearing aid benefit for seniors on Medicare — and $555 billion to tackle climate change.
There's also a one-year extension of a child care tax credit that was put in place during the COVID-19 rescue, new child care subsidies and $100 billion to bolster the legal immigration and border processing system.
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Some liberals want to see the details. But remember that he has 38 years of experience.
Chuck Ross Merrick Garland tells @ChuckGrassley he will not dissolve school board task force even though the National School Boards Association apologized for the “domestic terrorism” letter that seemingly prompted Garland to create the task force
Biden is using the Department of Justice to go after political opponents who protest or are political opponents
U.S. economic growth crashed in the third quarter, as the economy grappled with the Delta variant driving a resurgence of Covid-19 infections and supply-chain disruptions.
Gross domestic product—the value of all goods and services produced in the U.S.—grew at an annualized rate of two percent from July through September, after adjusting for inflation and seasonality, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
That was below the consensus expectation for 2.9 percent growth.
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The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index increased 5.3 percent, compared with an increase of 6.5 percent in the prior period. Excluding food and energy prices, the PCE price index increased 4.5 percent, compared with an increase of 6.1 percent in the second quarter. This measure, so-called core PCE inflation, is closely watched by the Federal Reserve.
Current-dollar GDP, which is not adjusted for inflation, increased 7.8 percent at an annual rate, or $432.5 billion, in the third quarter to a level of $23.17 trillion. That was a big slowdown from the second quarter when the economy grew at an annualized rate of 13.4 percent, or $702.8 billion.
Consumer spending climbed just 1.6 percent in the third quarter, a big deceleration from the 12 percent pace of growth in the prior quarter. That was driven by the lack of durable goods sought by consumers and a fumbled handoff from goods to consumer spending as many Americans canceled travel plans and cut back on things like eating out at restaurants thanks to the Delta variant.
dc_draino I wonder how close we are to Democrat governors telling riot police to use fire hoses and dogs against unvaxxed protestors wanting to eat at the same restaurants as everyone else
It's a lot more dangerous than using the IRS to get his tax returns that he hid from the public.
Keeping you financial document private is not hiding them from the public.
The public has no right to see them.
Don't know how Trump tried to use the DOJ to steal the election. Barr kept the DOJ independent and unbiased despite the lies the Democrats and media sing.
Little historical irony. It was delegates from the slave states who insisted on attaching a Bill of Rights before they would ratified the Constitution.
John Adams, and most of the northern (federalist) party thought it wasn't necessary. The thought an American natural right would be enforced with English Common Law.
President Biden met with lawmakers on Thursday morning to lay out a framework on a $1.85 trillion effort to spend heavily on climate change, child care and a wide range of other economic programs, paid for by an estimated $2 trillion in tax increases on corporations and high earners, though it was not immediately clear if it has the votes to pass.
White House officials refused to say if all holdout Democrats in Congress had expressed support for the framework, which still may change.
The framework leaves out several key planks of the economic agenda that Mr. Biden laid out on the campaign trail and shortly after taking office. It does nothing to reduce prescription drug costs for seniors, and it omits what would have been the nation’s first federally guaranteed paid family and medical leave for workers. It does not include free community college for all, as Mr. Biden had promised. It would expand Medicare coverage to include hearing, but not vision or dental services.
It also would not raise the corporate tax rate or the top individual income tax rate, and it would not impose a new tax on the unrealized wealth gains of billionaires, as Democrats had recently proposed.
The key provisions of the proposal include:
$555 billion to fight climate change, largely through tax incentives for low-emission sources of energy.
$400 billion to provide universal prekindergarten to 3- and 4-year-olds, and to significantly reduce health care costs for working families earning up to $300,000 a year.
$200 billion to extend an expanded tax credit for parents through 2022, and to permanently allow parents to benefit from the child tax credit even if they do not earn enough money to have income tax liability.
$165 billion to reduce health care premiums for people who are covered through the Affordable Care Act, to provide insurance for an additional four million people through Medicaid and to offer hearing coverage through Medicare.
$150 billion to reduce a waiting list for in-home care for seniors and disabled Americans, and to improve wages for home health care workers.
$150 billion to build one million affordable housing units.
$100 billion for immigration streamlining, in part to reduce a backlog of nine million visas. House Democrats proposed provisions last month to address the legal immigration system, including a plan to recapture hundreds of thousands of unused visas various administrations failed to use over several decades and allow green card applicants to pay higher fees to expedite their processing. The investment outlined on Thursday would also expand legal representation for migrants and streamline processing at the southwest border, officials said. Mr. Biden has faced criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for his handling of migration to the border.
$40 billion for worker training and higher education, including increasing annual Pell grants by $550.
Offsetting that spending is an estimated $2 trillion in revenue increases, including:
A 15 percent minimum tax on the reported profits of large corporations.
Efforts to reduce profit-shifting by multinational companies, including a separate 15 percent minimum tax on profits earned by U.S. companies abroad — and tax penalties for companies that have their headquarters in global tax havens.
A 1 percent tax on corporate stock buybacks.
Increased enforcement for large corporations and the wealthy at the Internal Revenue Service.
An additional 5 percent tax on incomes exceeding $10 million a year and another 3 percent tax on incomes above $25 million.
Efforts to limit business losses for the very wealthy and to impose a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on certain people earning more than $400,000 a year who did not previously pay that tax.
At the same time, our infrastructure is crumbling all around us. In the middle of the country, our children are still drinking water laced with lead from old pipes. Teenagers in rural communities are doing their homework in their high school parking lot, glomming on to any Internet access they can.
Regions like mine need both the bipartisan infrastructure package and the Build Back Better Act—and we need them right now.
After all, let's remember that Republicans passed a tax bill that cost this country $1.9 trillion. But what did we get for our money? There were no roads or bridges built. The 100-year-old pipes that bring us our drinking water didn't get replaced. None of that money went to help two-income families pay for childcare or tuition.
That money wasn't spent on working families; it went into the piggy banks of corporations so their CEO's and boards could get generous raises and year-end bonuses. All that money spent... and life for most Americans didn't get any better.
Our nation has fallen behind, but our shared American spirit means we cannot give up. And while few of our colleagues across the aisle have shown a willingness to work together, I believe we can move past this proverbial chicken-or-egg moment, join together to find common ground and make meaningful progress right now—even if it's not all of the progress we need to make.
The truth of the matter is, those of us on Main Street are desperate for transformation, the kind of investment we haven't seen since World War II. That's the kind of legislative investment these bills would deliver.
So when members of our Congress threaten to take down both packages if a demand isn't met, we're not living up to our commitment to these hardworking families. And what we risk just isn't worth it. Our only option is to come together and compromise.
The American people can't afford to wait any longer.
Legislating is messy; it always has been. But we're primed to spend money on working and middle-class Americans who desperately need it. And if we focus too much on process or any individual's agenda, we risk getting nothing done at all.
The American people are waiting and Congress is called on to save the day. It's past time we deliver.
Cheri Bustos is the U.S. Representative from Illinois' 17th Congressional District and a member of senior House Democratic Leadership.
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The news coverage says that it is still unclear, but if the President's speech gets his agenda passed, he will be a transitional President of the United States of America.
Oh and forcing Trumps private tax returns to be pubic is far more dangerous and anything Trump said.
It sets a precedent of government running roughshod over the privacy rights of all Americans. In effect, throwing out the 4th and 5th amendments. __________
Recent candidates for President have considered it a good thing to release their tax returns.
Trump said he would do that too.
He lied.
Maybe there's something he knew he had to hide or he could never be elected?
AXIOS REPORTS “I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the House and Senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week.” — President Biden to a House Democratic caucus meeting.
Commonsense: Trump chose to keep his tax returns private. That is his right. _____________
Real sense: No, Trump chose to campaign on the promise that he would do as so many other presidential candidates have done and disclose his tax returns, and then did not do that.
That is called a broken campaign promise and a lie.
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Despite the lingering tensions, the mere specter of a deal left Democratic leaders confident enough to try to take the next step in advancing the package, which lawmakers say could cost closer to $1.75 trillion, roughly half of what they originally hoped to spend. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced they would hold a key procedural hearing in the House on Thursday, opening the door for lawmakers to bring the still-forming tax-and-spending measure to the chamber floor — that is, once they finish writing it.
“Today, we move closer to passing the historic, transformative Build Back Better Act,” she said in a letter to Democrats.
A deal before week’s end would amount to a symbolic achievement as Biden prepares to depart on a foreign tour. The president has sought to try to secure at least the outlines of a spending deal before heading to the Group of 20 meeting of world leaders in Rome this weekend, followed by an international climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, a day later.
With the clock ticking, Biden is set to huddle privately with House Democrats at an early Thursday meeting, marking his second visit to the Hill in recent weeks, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. Ahead of the House call, White House press secretary Jen Psaki sounded a note of optimism, telling reporters that the White House and Democratic lawmakers “continued to make progress on finalizing details as we work toward an agreement.”
I have been saying this since Trump was elected President. And even before.
The modern Republican brainwashing plot is the latest outgrowth of McCarthyism.
John Stoehr
October 27, 2021
Three things need saying. One, that "critical race theory" is becoming the most destructive political boogeyman since Joseph McCarthy fear-mongered about Communists hiding behind every bush and tree.
Two, that this political boogeyman is being used by Republican state lawmakers to achieve what they have wanted — to use the power of the state to censor information and to police thought. We are close to updating the old Cold War pursuit of "un-American activities."
Three, that by censoring information and policing thought, the Republicans can replace knowledge and understanding with lies and propaganda advancing a preferred way of seeing America, to wit: In America, everyone gets a fair shake in life. Social ills like poverty and racism are individual failings, not societal ones. Everything is fine. Nothing to worry about. Except "those people" making trouble.
The desired outcome of such rhetoric, of course, is preempting serious and legit challenges to a social order in which white men are on top.
All of this is happening at the same time. It can be dizzying! But make no mistake. It is a backlash against the political gains made in the wake of George Floyd's murder. The movement against anti-Black white supremacy has been (somewhat) successful. The backlash is proof.
Now, remember. No one is learning critical race theory in K-12. That's what college students study if they choose to. What's being debated is make-believe. (Hence, my quotes around "critical race theory.") So when people like Glenn Youngkin, the GOP candidate for governor in Virginia, say they're going to ban "critical race theory," strictly speaking, that's not possible. "Critical race theory" doesn't exist.
But thanks to the efforts of Republicans and right-wing propagandists, there are now lots of things associated with "critical race theory" that have nothing to with critical race theory, without the quotes, and they pretty much include all discussion of race and racism that might make respectable white people conscious of their race, uncomfortable with heightened awareness of their race and even pained by the knowledge of a social, political and legal establishment that protects them on account of their race while punishing others on account of theirs.
So there's some highly coded rhetoric here. When Youngkin says he's going to ban "critical race theory," the message isn't that he's going to ban ways of thinking about and engaging the world, which is, in fact, what he's proposing, but instead "ban" the discomfort and pain respectable white people and their kids may feel as a consequence of the political gains made by Black activists after George Floyd's murder.
If we're very lucky, respectable white people — that great globular middle of American politics — will see the danger. They will see that, no matter how dangerous "critical race theory" is said to be, that's no reason to ban books and outlaw the utterance of individual words. They will see the Republicans, even at state and local levels, as being people like you Scott cheered the former president's attempted coup d'etat.
If we're very unlucky, however, respectable white people — those Americans who view politics through the gauzy lens of respectability between and among white people — will see the GOP as not censoring information and policing thought but instead "banning" Black people from making them feel the pain of being aware of being white. They will see the Republicans, especially at state and local levels, as being not so bad despite cheering the former president's attempted coup.
What to do? First, make it clear the Republicans are lying. No one, and I mean no one, is teaching white children to hate themselves. No one is teaching white children their moral character is determined by their race. No one is teaching white children that one race is superior to another. All of this is a lie that, when repeated often enough, becomes the basis for state laws forbidding such things from being taught. (See legislation passed by the Wisconsin Assembly for a case in point.)
Second, these lies are part of the Big Lie. Donald Trump lies when saying the election was stolen from him. It wasn't. What he means, however, is that people he believes should not have a say in American politics — nonwhite voters — had a say in American politics, and that's wrong. That's "fraud." This Big Lie dovetails with another big lie, which is the belief among authoritarian white people that the United States is being taken from them, being stolen from them. By whom? By those who should not have a say in American politics — nonwhite voters. When they pass laws against "voter fraud," what they mean is passing laws against the "fraud" that is nonwhite Americans having a say.
Third, these lies and the laws these lies are based on are spearheading myriad state and local efforts to do what Republican officials have wanted to do but did not have the chance or justification to do until respectable white people felt first a pang of discomfort on becoming increasingly aware of being white after George Floyd's murder.
Compulsory K-12 public education is the greatest tool the United States has devised for flattening the hierarchies of power that allow the Republicans to maintain an advantage in society. For decades, they endeavored to censor information and police thought among teachers and children for the purpose of keeping white men at the top of the order — for the purpose of replacing knowledge and understanding with lies and propaganda advancing a preferred way of seeing America, to wit: America is the best place in the world. Don't like it? Leave it.
Some even called for banning books and outlawing the utterance of individual words. That seemed extreme before Floyd's murder.
Let's make sure it stays that way.
He is one of the most mass murders in history.
One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.
That’s what Dr. Deborah Birx told investigators with the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis during interviews on Oct. 12 and 13, according to excerpts of the interview transcripts released by the committee.
“I believe if we had fully implemented the mask mandates, the reduction in indoor dining, the getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and we had increased testing, we probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30 percent–less to 40 percent–less range,” Birx told the committee.
That accounts for more than 130,000 deaths, according to the committee.
Birx, a longtime public health official, was front and center in the Trump administration’s coronavirus response as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator from February 2020 through the end of his term in office.
Asked if Trump did as much as he could have in order to prevent loss of life, Birx responded: “No. And I’ve said that to the White House in general, and I believe I was very clear to the president in specifics of what I needed him to do.”
NBC REPORTS:
Trump Still Trying to Keep Tax Returns Secret
“Lawyers for former president Donald Trump urged a federal judge late Tuesday to block the Treasury Department and the IRS from giving his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee."
VANITY FAIR REPORTS:
“Is this because they contain evidence of fraud and other crimes? While we can‘t say for sure, it certainly seems like it, given the way he guards them like state secrets (and, y’know, the reports of him having committed fraud, which he has of course denied)."
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He may be the first candidate we have ever had who tries to run for president from inside a prison.
Birx and Fauci were able to talk Trump out of "packing the churches for Easter," which would have been a MAJOR disaster,
but they were not able to keep him from mishandling the pandemic so badly that it resulted in thousands and thousands of deaths that could have been prevented.
CRT is rascist and stupid, just like everyone who supports it.
CNN:
Brazilian commission votes in favor of recommending criminal charges against Bolsonaro
By Rodrigo Pedroso
October 27, 2021
Families of Brazilian Covid victims demand justice
Sao Paulo (CNN)A Brazilian commission investigating the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has called for criminal charges against President Jair Bolsonaro.
[THE SAME SORT OF CHARGES SHOULD BE BROUGHT AGAINST TRUMP]
Seven of the commission's eleven senators voted to support the recommendations of a 1,288-page report into the crisis, which condemned the populist leader's actions.
The document calls for charges against two companies and 78 individuals, including Bolsonaro, over the pandemic's enormous toll on
the country.
More than 605,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Brazil -- the second-highest number of deaths in the world after the United States.
The report alleges that Bolsonaro's government allowed the lethal virus to spread through the country in a failed bid to achieve herd immunity. [CH UN-TRUTH WAS ONCE ALL FOR ACHIEVING HED IMMUNITY IN OUR COUNTRY.]
It recommends indicting the president personally with nine crimes, including incitement to crime, charlatanism, and crimes against humanity.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly dismissed the commission's investigation and the resulting report as politically motivated.
The final document -- the result of six months of investigation -- will be sent to the Attorney General's Office, who will have 30 days to announce any measures. However, Attorney General Augusto Aras is considered an ally of the president and is not expected to pursue charges.
The commission is also expected to send a copy of the report to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
'Reckless' moves
Commission rapporteur Senator Renan Calheiros first presented the report publicly last week.
One of the document's main conclusions is that the Brazilian government, "omitted and opted to act in a non-technical and reckless manner in the fight against the pandemic"--"deliberately exposing the population to a concrete risk of mass infection."
The report also criticizes the government's discouragement of sanitary measures, including going against scientific advice including the use of social distancing and the use of masks, and denounces its push towards ineffective so-called treatments against Covid-19 such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
In scathing remarks on Tuesday, Calheiros said that while the report's findings attribute responsibility for the uncontrolled pandemic to many in Brazil, Bolsonaro bears the main culpability [AS TRIUMP DOES IN THE USA]
"It is (the responsibility) mainly of this president, this serial killer, who has a death compulsion and continues to repeat everything he has done before," Calheiros told reporters at a press conference.
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SERIAL KILLER BOLSANARO. SERIAL KILLER TRUMP.
"President Jair Bolsonaro and I have become great friends over the past few years. He fights hard for, and loves, the people of Brazil — just like I do for the people of the United States. Brazil is lucky to have a man such as Jair Bolsonaro working for them. He is a great President and will never let the people of his great country down!"
--Donald Trump, serial killer
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He let thousands of Brazilians down into the ground just as you let thousands of Americans down into the ground.
Two mass serial killers.
Let's Go Brandon!
Gallup regularly tracks Americans' ratings of national economic conditions as excellent, good, only fair or poor, and whether the economy is getting better or getting worse. The combined responses are used to create the Gallup Economic Confidence Index, which has a theoretical range of +100 (if all respondents say the economy is excellent or good and that it is getting better) to -100 (if all say it is poor and getting worse).
Before the eruption of COVID-19 in the U.S., confidence was high, registering +41 in February 2020, the best reading since 2000. By mid-March, as the U.S. began to deal with the spread of COVID-19, economic confidence had fallen to +22. Confidence bottomed out at -33 in the latter half of April amid widespread business and school closures in the U.S.
Since then, confidence has fluctuated but has not risen above the +2 recorded in April 2021. The current -25 reading is the lowest since -33 in April 2020 and -28 the next month, when unemployment was spiking. The index has now fallen at least marginally for four consecutive months.
The most recent dip in confidence is largely owing to a five-point increase in the percentage of Americans saying the economy is getting worse, from 63% to 68%. Independents' outlook has worsened, while Democrats' and Republicans' are essentially unchanged. In September, 63% of independents said economic conditions were getting worse, and in October, that grew to 72%.
Three-quarters of Americans rate current economic conditions in the country as only fair (42%) or poor (33%), and 68% say the economy is getting worse.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/356672/job-market-ratings-set-record-economic-confidence-slides.aspx
The Wall Street Journal should have its license to publish revoked after putting Trumps opinion letter into print without a single comment or warning about the lies included......The slurpers are drooling all over themselves as the letter confirms their own erroneous belief that donnie has a case for fraud were in reality every one of his claims are demonstrably false.....Lil Schtiiy et al will all circle the wagon and bullshit their way to rationalize the lies again....how sad that our big man in washington does not have enough blood to run 2 heads at the same time!!!!!!
BTW,,,,,,I am contemplating ending my WSJ subscription as my hope they were getting better was just shot to shit!!!!!
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
CRT is rascist and stupid, just like everyone who supports it.
During a recent talk, titled “Unpacking the Attacks on Critical Race Theory,” Cooper told writer Michael Harriot that when she attempts to teach critical race theory to college students, she asks if it’s possible to “legislate [racism] and march it away,” or if they think that “white people just always gonna be like this, and our job is to hold back their ability to do the most harm.”
Note the inability to speak grammatical English. Affirmative Action has had a devastating effect on the quality of higher education.
Consistent with the ideology she is paid to espouse, Professor Cooper really doesn’t like white people:
“The thing I want to say to you is ‘We gotta take these motherfuckers out,’ but, like, we can’t say that, right? I don’t believe in a project of violence, I truly don’t.”
https://moonbattery.com/profiles-in-academia-brittney-cooper/
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
CRT is racist and stupid, just like everyone who supports it.
Pretty accurate description of you rat......moon shot is a bigger joke than PJ>>>>>>>>>>BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Not hard for me to believe how you flunked out of Ag school with your incessant whining about everything.......
Blogger anonymous said...
The Wall Street Journal should have its license to publish revoked...
Tell us more about the WSJ's fictitious "license to publish" BWAA.
Breaking news.
President Biden plans to announce Thursday a revised framework for his social spending plan that he expects will gain the support of all Democrats, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation, marking a potential breakthrough after months of lengthy negotiations and stalled talks.
The White House plans to detail specific policies it expects to pass Congress after weeks of whittling down Biden’s agenda, according to one of the people. Democrats on Capitol Hill were preparing written details of the revamped proposal for release on Thursday, according to the second person.
The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans on the record. The White House declined to comment.
Biden will address House Democrats Thursday morning before delivering remarks from the White House about the plan. Biden’s speech comes ahead of his planned trip to Rome later in the day to begin a pair of international summits.
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Speaker Pelosi will introduce the infrastructure plan on the floor of the house of Representatives today. She will not introduce it, if she isn't secure that it will pass with bipartisan support.
Interesting day
The new revised Build Back Better package will probably not get passed this year.
He is trying to get the liberal Democrats to agree to separate the two bills.
That's going to be very interesting today.
Biden to announce new social spending framework expected to win support of all Democrats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-to-announce-democratic-agreement-on-social-spending-deal/2021/10/28/2781863c-37d3-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html
NBC on the same thing.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to unveil a framework Thursday for the legislation that congressional Democrats have been crafting to deliver on his social safety net agenda, NBC News has confirmed.
The White House expects full Democratic support for the proposal, which has been whittled down from his initial request at the center of legislative agenda.
Biden is expected to travel to Capitol Hill to huddle behind closed doors in the morning with House Democrats to discuss the package. He is then expected to deliver remarks at the White House in the late morning and is scheduled to leave for his trip to Europe in the mid-afternoon.
Biden to announce new social spending framework expected to win support of all Dems: WaPo
The news was first reported by The Washington Post.
It’s unclear exactly what is in the overall agreement, but NBC News reported Wednesday that Democrats dropped a proposal for paid family and medical leave from the spending package after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., expressed opposition. Biden had originally proposed 12 weeks of paid leave, then last week it was reduced to four weeks before it was eliminated altogether.
Democrats have said that the bill would provide an extension of the child tax credit and funding for childcare centers. The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, said Wednesday that the legislation would also include funding for housing and vouchers, historically Black colleges and universities and coverage for more seniors and Medicaid recipients.
The White House wanted at least a deal on the measure’s framework before Biden leaves for Europe because he doesn’t want to appear empty-handed at the G20 summit in Rome and the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
WHITE HOUSEBiden set to meet with House Democrats after paid family leave dropped from spending bill
Democrats have said that the bill had to be dramatically cut from the original $3.5 trillion proposal. Biden told progressives last week that he was considering a price range of $1.75 trillion to $1.9 trillion for the final package.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been aiming to hold a vote Thursday on the $550 billion Senate-passed infrastructure measure, but progressives have insisted that the larger social safety net bill proceed in tandem with the infrastructure package.
Kristen Welker
Typical source dumb fuck R's from NY use to support their bias....As I suspected....another POS conspiracy minded source for the demented right leaning R's!!!!
Is the moonbattery website a credible news source?
Overall, we rate MoonBattery a Questionable source based on Extreme Right-Wing Bias, promotion of conspiracies and propaganda, as well as making questionable statements regarding race and immigration. This is not a credible source
Tell us more about the WSJ's fictitious "license to publish" BWAA.
Another successful troll of the moron from NY>>>>>>>>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
The spending spree is
By Tess Homan
October 28 at 3:45 AM PDT
1. President Biden plans to announce a revised social spending package today.
The president expects all Democrats will support this new version after weeks of back-and-forth over how to shrink the trillion-dollar plan.
We don’t know yet what policies made the cut. As of last night, paid leave looked like it was on the chopping block.
Hey alky*, why don't you brag to us about how well Bidenomics is doing after yesterday's 266 point LOSS on the Dow?
LOL.
THWAP!!!
*Mentally ill serial plagiarizer.
In yesterday's Senate hearing, Ted Cruz absolutely tore AG Garland a new asshole in his questioning. And rightly so. It's worth the 10 minutes to watch it.
Ted Cruz is an asshole!!!!! He should be recalled!!!!!
*Mentally ill serial plagiarizer.
While you are a mentally deficient supporter of the biggest POS ever to sit in the WH!!!!!
Anonymous Myballs said...
In yesterday's Senate hearing, Ted Cruz absolutely tore AG Garland a new asshole in his questioning. And rightly so. It's worth the 10 minutes to watch it.
As did Cotton and Hawley.
Garland is just one more chapter in the Shit-fingered Midas legacy of Skeets Hussein 0linsky. The guy who laughingly warned us of Stairmaster Joe's ability to fuck things up.
And fuck things up he has.
Garland is just one more chapter in the Shit-fingered Midas legacy of Skeets Hussein 0linsky. The guy who laughingly warned us of Stairmaster Joe's ability to fuck things up.
And fuck things up he has.
watching him was like watching when Mueller testified.
and probably like Biden would look if he ever had to sit down and take hostile questions
Old empty suits put in their jobs so others can run the show
behind closed doors
watching him was like watching when Mueller testified.
and probably like Biden would look if he ever had to sit down and take hostile questions
Spitting a big ol' wad of saliva directly into the face of a constituent was pure class for Sloppy Joe.
The smoothest move he'll make of his entire presidency outside of falling down the fucking stairs..
LOL.
Tons of crushing video of Garland's testimony available.
FAKE NEWS state media will downplay or ignore
FJB and his administration
Josh Hawley
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1453437469874130948
Merrick Garland’s Justice Department has catalogued 13 federal crimes for which parents could be prosecuted for speaking out at school board meetings - but Garland says he doesn’t have time to review his Department’s own plans
Cruz
As did Cotton and Hawley.
The triple crown of idiots!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!
Sure appears to to a constant excuse from the Biden administration, they are too busy and don't have time.
Or are on leave.
But I saw Biden had time to continue to take his weekends off and to go do political rallies.
FJB
anonymous said...
Cruz
As did Cotton and Hawley.
The triple crown of idiots!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!
Looks like VERY lo iq is now signing off for the alky, "pastor" and himself
the triple crown of idiots is correct
and they must be standing behind him
(BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!)
ROFLMFAO !!!
Looks to me fucked daddy has trumps dick stuck in his ass......BQWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Aimee Terese
the left currently splitting hairs over just how much a girl was asking to be raped in bathroom at school, looking to land blows against "right wing reporters" after Biden WH colluded w/school boards to sicc FBI on parents like victims Dad & Obama dubbed it all phony culture war.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the leader of the House progressives, “said Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC she had convinced her members to accept an infrastructure vote without a Senate vote on the reconciliation package — as long as the bills still moved together in the House,” Politico reports.
A very consequential day.
Steve Herman
July through September GDP report the worst since the US economy began its recovery from the #coronavirus pandemic, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Donald Trump Jr.
Who could have seen this coming???
This is what incompetence and democrat leadership masked by leftist media gets you.
Russia close to using natural gas as weapon in Europe's gas crunch - Biden energy adviser | Reuters
Donnie Jr proving that the apple is rotten to its core......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Who would hire that fucking imbecile if his daddy wasn't rich?????? LOLOLOLOL BTW....that cunt he dates could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch!!!!!!!
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS:
Biden to Announce New Social Spending Framework
“President Biden plans to announce Thursday a revised framework for his social spending plan that he expects will gain the support of all Democrats, marking a potential breakthrough after months of lengthy negotiations and stalled talks.
“The specifics of what the president would announce were not immediately clear, nor was it clear whether he would be prepared to announce the support of key Democratic holdouts."
Biden is coming to the Hill. Now what?
...
Biden will announce a framework this morning, the Washington Post’s Tyler Pager and Sean Sullivan report, though it’s unclear what will be in the framework yet, let alone whether it has the support of key senators. There’s some skepticism. One source tells your fill-in host that Manchin and Sinema agreed to a general framework but have not yet committed to voting on a final bill — with open questions on the legislation too.
Many liberals are balking at a slew of cuts to the package on everything from paid leave to a proposed tax on billionaires — many of which they’ve been waiting years to enact. Prescription drug reform and Medicare expansion are also in flux. So instead of coalescing around a framework, progressives are again vowing to block Biden’s infrastructure package ahead of the Oct. 31 highway program deadline.
In the House, at least 30 liberals say they’re willing to vote against infrastructure until they see an ironclad commitment from the other side of the Capitol to pass the reconciliation bill. "And that number is only increasing," warned Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on Wednesday, a day after many of those frustrated members huddled to discuss tactics. One such member, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), reiterated her need for the bills to be linked in a Wednesday evening Twitter thread.
Still, there’s been some sign of a shift in liberals’ hardball tactics. Jayapal said Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC she had convinced her members to accept an infrastructure vote without a *Senate* vote on the reconciliation package — as long as the bills still moved together in the House.
Stay tuned: The House Rules Committee is expected to meet Thursday to at least begin to take up the spending plan, though it hasn’t been formally announced. And House Rules Chair Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told reporters Wednesday that the panel will need legislative text before they can actually wrap it up and report out the rule: “What I need is text. Some text, maybe not the whole bill, but we need to be able to start the hearing on what has been agreed upon."
If all this is sounding familiar... that’s because it’s only been 27 days since Biden’s last trip to the Hill amid a very similar standoff. He told House Democrats the infrastructure bill wouldn’t happen until agreement was reached on the social spending bill, and also floated a smaller topline amount for the social spending legislation. His announcement on timing made liberals happy but shocked others, including moderates who had been pushing for a vote on the infrastructure bill that week.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/huddle/2021/10/28/biden-is-coming-to-the-hill-now-what-494886
I wonder why roger left all but that little paragraph off ???
Biden is Meeting Now With Dem Caucus
THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS:
“Details were still unclear on the precise shape of the package, but people familiar with the president’s plan said he would use a 9 a.m. meeting of the House Democratic Caucus to try to convince liberal members that a final deal was close enough to allow them to support a separate, $1 trillion infrastructure bill that has already passed the Senate.”
CBS news
Washington — President Biden is unveiling a revamped social policy and climate change plan Thursday that the White House expects will make sweeping changes to American society and hopes to pass with overwhelming Democratic Party support.
The White House released details of the plan as the president prepared to leave Thursday for Europe to attend two major global summits and leave the work of passing the new $1.75 trillion proposal, plus the bipartisan infrastructure plan awaiting final passage in the House, up to top congressional leaders who've struggled to wrangle the disparate wings of the Democratic Party over the course of the protracted negotiations.
"We are confident that this historic framework will earn the support of every Democratic senator and pass the House," a senior administration official told reporters early Thursday.
A congressional aide familiar with the ongoing negotiations said Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, two key moderate Democrats whose support for the plan is crucial, have "loosely" agreed to a general, broad framework, but will not yet commit to supporting the bill.
Many Democrats, including progressives in the House, have insisted on seeing the legislative text of the measure before agreeing to pass the more targeted $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which revamps the nation's roads, bridges, rails and water lines.
The president planned to share more details of the plan with House Democrats on Capitol Hill on Thursday morning and address the nation around 11:30 a.m. ET, before departing for Rome where he is scheduled to arrive later tonight ahead of a Friday meeting with Pope Francis in Vatican City.
Sleepy Joe is going to drive the troll squad asshole crazy mothrf***r websites like I love Trump
Funny steve harmon fails to mention the Delta covid spike that affected the GDP Typical of fucked up posting only part of the story that GDP is predicted to rise in the quarter, probably better than trumps #'s BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!
of COVID-19 cases resulted in new restrictions and delays in the reopening of establishments in some parts of the country," the Bureau of Economic Analysis said in its release on Thursday. "In the third quarter, government assistance payments in the form of forgivable loans to businesses, grants to state and local governments, and social benefits to households all decreased."
Senior administration officials said that the measure will total about $1.75 trillion in funding, which they described as “the most transformative investment in children's caregiving in generations, the largest effort to combat climate change in history, an historic tax cut for tens of millions of middle-class families and the biggest expansion of affordable health care in decades.”
The latest version does not appear to include funding for paid family leave, a piece that had been a priority for many Democrats, including several women lawmakers.
White House officials said that the measure will be fully paid for through new taxes and reduce the deficit by generating about $2 trillion in revenue through an array of changes to the tax system. Officials stressed that no one making less than $400,000 will have their taxes raised.
The measure will provide for six years of universal free preschool for all three and four-year-olds, extend the child tax credit that was originally implemented by a previous coronavirus rescue package and reduce premiums by an average of $600 per year for more than nine million Americans who buy insurance through the Obamacare marketplace, the officials said.
Notably, the officials said that in addition to closing a Medicaid coverage gap, they also said that the framework would expand Medicare coverage to include hearing services. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had also been pushing for expanding Medicare to cover vision and dental services as well.
The legislation, they said, will also aim to start cutting climate pollution and put the U.S. on a track to reduce emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030. It would provide clean energy tax credits and an electric vehicle tax credit that would lower the cost of an electric vehicle by up to $12,500 per middle-class family, the officials said.
Biden heads to Europe later today, where he will meet with other world leaders in Scotland to discuss climate, giving him an element of his agenda to tout.
Officials said that the bill will make the “single largest and most comprehensive investment in affordable housing history,” extend the earned income tax credit for 17 million low-wage workers and provide funding for Historic Black Colleges and Universities.
While the bill doesn’t provide for a path to citizenship, the officials said that it would allocate $100 billion toward reducing immigration backlogs and expanding legal representation.
To pay for the bill, the framework will raise taxes on the highest-income Americans by creating a surtax on the incomes of multimillionaires and billionaires, said officials, who added that it would also invest in the IRS to ensure that wealthy Americans are paying the taxes that they owe.
They also said that the legislation would impose a 15 percent minimum tax on corporate profits that large corporations with more than a billion in profits report to their shareholders and a 1 percent tax on stock buybacks. To punish companies that ship their profits overseas, the bill would impose a 50 percent minimum tax on foreign profits of U.S. corporations.
As far as the proposals that have been scrapped, officials said that they weren’t able to agree on provisions that would give Medicare the authority to negotiate drug prices for Americans.
NBC News reported Wednesday that Democrats dropped a proposal for paid family and medical leave from the spending package after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., expressed opposition. Biden had originally proposed 12 weeks of paid leave, then last week it was reduced to four weeks before it was eliminated altogether.
White House officials voiced confidence Thursday morning that the framework would earn the support of all 50 senators in the Democratic caucus and pass the House.
I wonder why roger left all but that little paragraph off ???
Oh that totally misleading extracted paragraph was from:
A Shift In Liberals’ Hardball Tactics?
October 28, 2021 at 7:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 60 Comments
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the leader of the House progressives, “said Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC she had convinced her members to accept an infrastructure vote without a Senate vote on the reconciliation package — as long as the bills still moved together in the House,” Politico reports.
https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/28/a-shift-in-liberals-hardball-tactics/
looks like both the "pastor" and alky are both hiding behind the FAKE NEWS GODdard political_lire
constantly
Why don't they just set up camp there ?
They sure look foolish and embarrassed to show who is running their little minds here
ROFLMFAO !!!
POLITICO REPORTS:
Democrats Are Sticking By Biden
“The last time Virginia and New Jersey elected governors in 2017, then-President Donald Trump was nowhere to be found. With his approval rating below 40 percent, neither GOP nominee wanted him anywhere near their campaigns.
“Fast forward four years and Joe Biden’s poll numbers aren’t much better. Yet Democrats have welcomed Biden on the campaign trail. Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe and New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy both appeared on stage with him this week.”
https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/28/a-sign-democrats-are-sticking-by-biden/
“The speaker knows how to count votes,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). “I don't think she's going to bring it for a vote until she knows she can win it, and she has Pramila and a few others clearly on board.”
And they’re getting support from liberal allies in the Senate.
“A framework is part of getting to a final bill, but I’m not OK with the infrastructure bill being passed out of the House until we actually have a bill in the Senate,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.).
The President has a plan that will get Merkley on board today.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/28/biden-house-democrats-517416
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/28/biden-polls-campaign-mcauliffe-517353
I hate to admit it, but it really is from POLITICO.
Glenn Greenwald
https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1453067534861836289
As I wrote yesterday, almost every group that purports to fight "extremism" and "disinformation" online is funded by the same small handful of like-minded liberal billionaires and western security state services
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/pierre-omidyars-financing-of-the
add in others such as the BEZO's blog (the Washington Post) the Chinese mouthpiece the New York Times and the Job's widow the Atlantic and you have billionaires controlling America's information flow
or rather the actual misinformation flow
Is this because they contain evidence of fraud and other crimes?
it is a matter of privacy. How would you like your political opponents wading through your tax returns and releasing selected parts of the return just to damage you.
How ways and means must demonstrate a compelling interest far more that a regular subpoena. The government covenant with taxpayers is to keep personal financial documents confidential from the public, other agencies, and Congress.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THIS SAYS IT ALL
PLAYBOOK overheard the followig on Capitol Hill:
“Reps. Ann Wagner (R-MO) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) were at an event on Capitol Hill last Thursday.
Standing by the bar, a person in their group asked about redistricting in Missouri and said he hoped Wagner gets a more conservative district to help her win reelection.”
Said Wagner skeptically:
“Then you get those wacko birds.”
To which McCaul said:
“That’s why we had to vote the way we did today!”
EXPLANATION:
“That day, House Democrats and nine Republicans voted to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for ignoring a Jan. 6 committee subpoena.
Wagner and McCaul voted against the contempt effort.”
__________
A clear admission that the GOP finds itself today having to vote WITH the "wacko birds" created by Trumpism.
ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!
Anonymous James's Fucking Daddy said...
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/28/biden-polls-campaign-mcauliffe-517353
I hate to admit it, but it really is from POLITICO.
FUCK OFF "pastor" james boswell, normal illinois
It's an extraction of their article without any reference to who is doing the extraction and it's not them. Could be just as misleading as the piece roger just posted from political_lire thru Politico. Total garbage of an extraction.
What a dishonest POS not acting anything like a pastor
* spit *
8:35
I guess CommonUNsense
has forgotten that when Trump began running for President, he promised to release his tax returns, as all other recent candidates for President have done, a promise he never kept.
Wonder why?
keep bowing to me james
and keep hiding your allegiance
We both know you are worshipping at the altar of political_lire
And will have no other God before me
My goodness, F Daddy sure does get upset sometime.
Even Redstate geezers is getting nervous.
So will they actually be able to announce they have a deal here? It doesn’t exactly sound like they’re there if the progressives are still objecting to the timing.
But if the progressives now hold up a vote on infrastructure, even with an alleged framework for the bigger reconciliation bill, the liberal anger is going to shift on them next.
So hold onto your hat and pull out the popcorn, we shall have to see where this lands.
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The liberals are on board and the reduced Build Back Better is getting the two Senators to support Sleepy Joe Biden
He even thinks James is bowing to him, ROFLMFAO.
EXCLUSIVE: McAuliffe-Linked Law Firm Fighting Virginia Student Who Said She Was Gang-Raped
A law firm that employed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is being paid handsomely to fight victims of alleged sexual abuse in schools, on behalf of a school system that the girls say failed to protect them.
In one case the Hunton Andrews Kurth law firm, where McAuliffe served as a senior adviser from 2019 until recently, is battling a young woman who says that she was repeatedly raped on her Fairfax County middle school campus as a 12-year old and that she was slashed with a knife, burned with a lighter, anally penetrated, and gang raped.
The law firm and McAuliffe’s campaign did not return request for comment, but McAuliffe reported income apparently linked to the firm in 2021, after announcing his run for governor of Virginia on December 8, 2020. Later advertisements from the firm for McAuliffe fundraisers refer to him as a “former colleague.”
The girl in the middle school case said she was afraid of having her real name attached because one of her alleged tormentors had threatened to kill her if she came forward
continues with more cases:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-mcauliffe-linked-law-firm-fighting-virginia-student-who-said-she-was-gang-raped
the candidate the "pastor" supports
He's his kind of man
Maybe the "pastor" doesn't know the "D" doesn't necessarily stand for demon
FUCK off "pastor" james boswell
see we both agree
ROFLMFAO at the twit !!!
has the pastor been supporting any other pedophiles or pedophile enablers ?
Is this because they contain evidence of fraud and other crimes?
it is a matter of privacy.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Yeah right....like he's a private citizen who constantly lies about his business!!!!!v He is now fighting to keep them from congress also.....sad he sure seems to be hiding something which assholes like you think is fine......IDIOT!!!
* "pastor"
The girl in the middle school case said she was afraid of having her real name attached because one of her alleged tormentors had threatened to kill her if she came forward
So I guess she didn't appear at the Biden/McAuliffe rally ?
So this spending boondoggle started as $6T, is down to 1.75T with a dem party civil way breaking out. But the media will trumpet it as some grand success.
Spectrum News
What You Need To KnowPresident Joe Biden is traveling to Capitol Hill to pitch
House Democrats on a dramatically scaled back domestic policy package
The bill is now at $1.75 trillion and without a paid family leave program and other priorities, but it's still a sweeping proposal with new health care, free-prekindergarten and climate change programs. Including hearing aids and dental care and eye glasses.
Later, the president will make remarks at the White House.
The president has wanted to announce at least the framework of a deal before departing later Thursday on global summits.
Greg Price
In Loudoun County’s school system, you can be forced out of your job for saying that boys are not girls but not for covering up a rape
Biden's America
Matt Couch
FDA Panel votes 17-0 to approve vaccines for children ages 5-11…
Dr. Ruben on the FDA panel: "We're never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it. That's the way it goes."
half the panel had ties to Pfizer
the rest probably to Biden
WSJ reports
WASHINGTON—President Biden released a new framework on the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion social-spending and climate package Thursday aimed at winning support of congressional Democrats locked in talks over his agenda.
Senior administration officials pitched the plan as a transformative step forward on expanding early childhood education and healthcare coverage and combating climate change, among other programs, but it also marks a scaling back of the administration’s agenda, with key tax increases and a plan to create a national paid leave program out of the framework. A plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices wasn’t included in the White House plan, but aides said they expect some provisions to be added during further congressional negotiations.
Mr. Biden addressed House Democrats Thursday morning to provide an update on the spending package and a parallel bipartisan infrastructure package that has been held up by progressives in the House. Mr. Biden will then deliver remarks from the White House, and one of the people familiar with the matter said he would provide a path forward on his economic agenda before departing for Italy.
“The president believes this framework will earn the support of all 50 Democratic senators and pass the House,” a senior administration official said, adding that the White House would defer to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on the specific timing of House votes on both pieces of legislation.
Whether the major policy concessions Mr. Biden made to centrists will be acceptable to progressive Democrats remains unclear. Mr. Biden is expected to tell Democrats that he trusts Sens. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.), two pivotal centrists in the talks, according to a person familiar with the plans. He is also expected to ask the House Democrats to vote later Thursday for a separate infrastructure package that progressives have balked at supporting until they can secure passage of the social welfare and climate bill, the person said.
This is the most consequential day of his life!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Yeah right....like he's a private citizen who constantly lies about his business!!!!!
Well he is a private citizen but that's beside the point. The privacy covenant extends to all tax payers. If anything politicians need the covenant more that any other taxpayer.
The Democrats are trying to use the IRS for opposition research.
I doubt he lied to the IRS.
IMPORTANT TAX RETURN
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1453102669703180289
The EcoHealth Alliance, the American nonprofit that helped fund gain-of-function studies at the Wuhan lab, says pretty openly on its tax return that it spent $319,570 and $126,792 on "bat coronavirus emergence" research in China
Fauci lied
And since New York prosecutors have had Trump's tax returns for many months now you know it is a big nothingburger and just FAKE NEWS state media talking point for dems. Else it would already have "leaked".
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden traveled to Capitol Hill early Thursday to make the case to House Democrats for a dramatically scaled-back domestic policy package, $1.75 trillion of social services and climate change programs the White House believes can pass the 50-50 Senate.
Biden is eager to have a deal in hand before he departs later in the day for global summits, but the revised new package is losing some of Democrats' top priorities as the president's campaign ambitions make way for the political realities of the narrowly divided Congress.
A paid family leave and efforts to lower prescription drug pricing are now gone entirely from the package, according to senior administration officials who requested anonymity to brief reporters about the emerging details.
Still in the mix: Free prekindergarten for all youngsters, expanded health care programs — including the launch of a $35 billion new hearing aid benefit for seniors on Medicare — and $555 billion to tackle climate change.
There's also a one-year extension of a child care tax credit that was put in place during the COVID-19 rescue, new child care subsidies and $100 billion to bolster the legal immigration and border processing system.
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Some liberals want to see the details. But remember that he has 38 years of experience.
roger said:
Some liberals want to see the details. But remember that he has 38 years of experience.
and now how many months of dementia ?
about the same ?
of course that is "progressive"
Trump tried to use the Department of Justice to steal the election.
It's a lot more dangerous than using the IRS to get his tax returns that he hid from the public.
But remember that he has 38 years of experience.
I thought it was 47 years, alky.
47 years, and not one accomplishment, significant or trivial, to his name.
"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
- Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates
“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f**k things up."
- Skeets Hussein 0linsky
38 years of experience by a landslide or something.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
Chuck Ross
Merrick Garland tells @ChuckGrassley he will not dissolve school board task force even though the National School Boards Association apologized for the “domestic terrorism” letter that seemingly prompted Garland to create the task force
Biden is using the Department of Justice to go after political opponents who protest or are political opponents
Let's Go Brandon!
U.S. economic growth crashed in the third quarter, as the economy grappled with the Delta variant driving a resurgence of Covid-19 infections and supply-chain disruptions.
Gross domestic product—the value of all goods and services produced in the U.S.—grew at an annualized rate of two percent from July through September, after adjusting for inflation and seasonality, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
That was below the consensus expectation for 2.9 percent growth.
...
The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index increased 5.3 percent, compared with an increase of 6.5 percent in the prior period. Excluding food and energy prices, the PCE price index increased 4.5 percent, compared with an increase of 6.1 percent in the second quarter. This measure, so-called core PCE inflation, is closely watched by the Federal Reserve.
Current-dollar GDP, which is not adjusted for inflation, increased 7.8 percent at an annual rate, or $432.5 billion, in the third quarter to a level of $23.17 trillion. That was a big slowdown from the second quarter when the economy grew at an annualized rate of 13.4 percent, or $702.8 billion.
Consumer spending climbed just 1.6 percent in the third quarter, a big deceleration from the 12 percent pace of growth in the prior quarter. That was driven by the lack of durable goods sought by consumers and a fumbled handoff from goods to consumer spending as many Americans canceled travel plans and cut back on things like eating out at restaurants thanks to the Delta variant.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/28/economic-growth-slowed-to-2-in-third-quarter/
38 years of experience!
rrb said...
But remember that he has 38 years of experience.
I thought it was 47 years, alky.
OK, by doing the math he has had 11 years of progressive dementia
that clears that up
dc_draino
I wonder how close we are to Democrat governors telling riot police to use fire hoses and dogs against unvaxxed protestors wanting to eat at the same restaurants as everyone else
It's a lot more dangerous than using the IRS to get his tax returns that he hid from the public.
Keeping you financial document private is not hiding them from the public.
The public has no right to see them.
Don't know how Trump tried to use the DOJ to steal the election. Barr kept the DOJ independent and unbiased despite the lies the Democrats and media sing.
Oh and forcing Trumps private tax returns to be pubic is far more dangerous and anything Trump said.
It sets a precedent of government running roughshod over the privacy rights of all Americans. In effect, throwing out the 4th and 5th amendments.
Little historical irony. It was delegates from the slave states who insisted on attaching a Bill of Rights before they would ratified the Constitution.
John Adams, and most of the northern (federalist) party thought it wasn't necessary. The thought an American natural right would be enforced with English Common Law.
President Biden met with lawmakers on Thursday morning to lay out a framework on a $1.85 trillion effort to spend heavily on climate change, child care and a wide range of other economic programs, paid for by an estimated $2 trillion in tax increases on corporations and high earners, though it was not immediately clear if it has the votes to pass.
White House officials refused to say if all holdout Democrats in Congress had expressed support for the framework, which still may change.
The framework leaves out several key planks of the economic agenda that Mr. Biden laid out on the campaign trail and shortly after taking office. It does nothing to reduce prescription drug costs for seniors, and it omits what would have been the nation’s first federally guaranteed paid family and medical leave for workers. It does not include free community college for all, as Mr. Biden had promised. It would expand Medicare coverage to include hearing, but not vision or dental services.
It also would not raise the corporate tax rate or the top individual income tax rate, and it would not impose a new tax on the unrealized wealth gains of billionaires, as Democrats had recently proposed.
The key provisions of the proposal include:
$555 billion to fight climate change, largely through tax incentives for low-emission sources of energy.
$400 billion to provide universal prekindergarten to 3- and 4-year-olds, and to significantly reduce health care costs for working families earning up to $300,000 a year.
$200 billion to extend an expanded tax credit for parents through 2022, and to permanently allow parents to benefit from the child tax credit even if they do not earn enough money to have income tax liability.
$165 billion to reduce health care premiums for people who are covered through the Affordable Care Act, to provide insurance for an additional four million people through Medicaid and to offer hearing coverage through Medicare.
$150 billion to reduce a waiting list for in-home care for seniors and disabled Americans, and to improve wages for home health care workers.
$150 billion to build one million affordable housing units.
$100 billion for immigration streamlining, in part to reduce a backlog of nine million visas. House Democrats proposed provisions last month to address the legal immigration system, including a plan to recapture hundreds of thousands of unused visas various administrations failed to use over several decades and allow green card applicants to pay higher fees to expedite their processing. The investment outlined on Thursday would also expand legal representation for migrants and streamline processing at the southwest border, officials said. Mr. Biden has faced criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for his handling of migration to the border.
$40 billion for worker training and higher education, including increasing annual Pell grants by $550.
The President will speak in about 20 minutes.
Before he flies to Europe and visit the Pope.
Offsetting that spending is an estimated $2 trillion in revenue increases, including:
A 15 percent minimum tax on the reported profits of large corporations.
Efforts to reduce profit-shifting by multinational companies, including a separate 15 percent minimum tax on profits earned by U.S. companies abroad — and tax penalties for companies that have their headquarters in global tax havens.
A 1 percent tax on corporate stock buybacks.
Increased enforcement for large corporations and the wealthy at the Internal Revenue Service.
An additional 5 percent tax on incomes exceeding $10 million a year and another 3 percent tax on incomes above $25 million.
Efforts to limit business losses for the very wealthy and to impose a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on certain people earning more than $400,000 a year who did not previously pay that tax.
— Jim Tankersley and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
We need to help.
At the same time, our infrastructure is crumbling all around us. In the middle of the country, our children are still drinking water laced with lead from old pipes. Teenagers in rural communities are doing their homework in their high school parking lot, glomming on to any Internet access they can.
Regions like mine need both the bipartisan infrastructure package and the Build Back Better Act—and we need them right now.
After all, let's remember that Republicans passed a tax bill that cost this country $1.9 trillion. But what did we get for our money? There were no roads or bridges built. The 100-year-old pipes that bring us our drinking water didn't get replaced. None of that money went to help two-income families pay for childcare or tuition.
That money wasn't spent on working families; it went into the piggy banks of corporations so their CEO's and boards could get generous raises and year-end bonuses. All that money spent... and life for most Americans didn't get any better.
Our nation has fallen behind, but our shared American spirit means we cannot give up. And while few of our colleagues across the aisle have shown a willingness to work together, I believe we can move past this proverbial chicken-or-egg moment, join together to find common ground and make meaningful progress right now—even if it's not all of the progress we need to make.
The truth of the matter is, those of us on Main Street are desperate for transformation, the kind of investment we haven't seen since World War II. That's the kind of legislative investment these bills would deliver.
So when members of our Congress threaten to take down both packages if a demand isn't met, we're not living up to our commitment to these hardworking families. And what we risk just isn't worth it. Our only option is to come together and compromise.
The American people can't afford to wait any longer.
Legislating is messy; it always has been. But we're primed to spend money on working and middle-class Americans who desperately need it. And if we focus too much on process or any individual's agenda, we risk getting nothing done at all.
The American people are waiting and Congress is called on to save the day. It's past time we deliver.
Cheri Bustos is the U.S. Representative from Illinois' 17th Congressional District and a member of senior House Democratic Leadership.
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The news coverage says that it is still unclear, but if the President's speech gets his agenda passed, he will be a transitional President of the United States of America.
Oh and forcing Trumps private tax returns to be pubic is far more dangerous and anything Trump said.
It sets a precedent of government running roughshod over the privacy rights of all Americans. In effect, throwing out the 4th and 5th amendments.
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Recent candidates for President have considered it a good thing to release their tax returns.
Trump said he would do that too.
He lied.
Maybe there's something he knew he had to hide or he could never be elected?
Biden pitches Democrats on $1.75T spending deal with climate measures but no paid leave
Biden is expected to address the nation from the White House in the late morning about the legislation.
No paid leave is going to get support from business owners.
AXIOS REPORTS
“I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the House and Senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week.”
— President Biden to a House Democratic caucus meeting.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REPORT:
“I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the the Biden presidency was determined by what happened in the first 10 months of the presidency
SOARING CRIME
SOARING MURDERS
SOARING DRUG OVERDOSES
SOARING INFLATION
SOARING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
SOARING DEBT
SOARING HATE CRIMES
SOARING RACIAL DIVISIVENESS
SOARING FOREIGN THREATS
FAILING SCHOOLS
A COVID CRISIS
A FAILED AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL
AMERICANS LEFT BEHIND
and in other countries taken hostage
a corrupt politicized FBI and DOJ
and an absent demented president.
"president Biden"
* the buck stops there
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REPORT:
You really posted the American Asshole Bitching about everything that bothers him report;......>BWAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Recent candidates for President have considered it a good thing to release their tax returns.
That's the candidates choice, it's not a constitutional requirement.
Trump chose to keep his tax returns private. That is his right.
As said before, the public has no right to see a candidate's personal financial information,
Commonsense:
Trump chose to keep his tax returns private. That is his right.
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Real sense:
No, Trump chose to campaign on the promise that he would do as so many other presidential candidates have done and disclose his tax returns, and then did not do that.
That is called a broken campaign promise and a lie.
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