GOP attacks Biden over his latest offer to compromise for them on jobs plan
President Joe Biden offered to cut about a quarter of the spending out of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - May 24, 2021President Joe Biden offered to cut about a quarter of the spending out of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - May 24, 2021Rep. Yvette Herrell’s proposal would suspend the gasoline tax that funds transportation infrastructure.
By Josh Israel - May 21, 2021‘We are really tying that back to this notion that environmental justice and equity will be center stage at EPA and this administration,’ said EPA Administrator Michael Regan.
By Associated Press - May 12, 2021And he wants the plan to be much smaller than what the GOP first suggested.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2021Republicans are against nearly everything President Joe Biden deems needed.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2021Nearly 100 days into his tenure, Joe Biden remains popular with a majority of the country. And his policies are even more popular than he is.
By Emily Singer - April 28, 2021It doesn’t even come close to covering the ground the American Jobs Plan does.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2021Rep. Kat Cammack seems to have read neither the American Jobs Plan nor recent polls.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2021Republicans want to make sure drivers of electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles pay more.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2021Sen. John Cornyn says Republicans could agree to one-third of the money President Joe Biden wants for his American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - April 19, 2021But it only offers a fraction of the benefits President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan does.
By Donna Provencher - April 15, 2021Republicans’ claim that it will cost 1 million jobs totally skips over the jobs part of the American Jobs Plan.
By Josh Israel - April 14, 2021They want a gas tax increase instead of a corporate tax increase.
By Josh Israel - April 13, 2021A Republican memo was sent just before President Joe Biden was scheduled to meet with a delegation of Congress members from both parties.
By Josh Israel - April 12, 2021She’s also voted to strip health care from Americans with preexisting conditions and deny parental leave to federal employees.
By Donna Provencher - April 08, 2021Congressional Republicans say only roads and bridges count as infrastructure — but also that President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan should include Donald Trump’s failed wall.
By Josh Israel - April 07, 2021Nearly three-quarters of likely voters support Biden’s plan.
By Josh Israel - April 07, 2021Up to 10 million Americans are still getting their water through lead pipes — and Republicans have refused to do anything about it.
By Donna Provencher - April 06, 2021Republicans suddenly have a very narrow definition of infrastructure.
By Josh Israel - April 06, 2021Their claims are full of lies and misleading half-truths about who would be impacted and how President Joe Biden’s proposal works.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said Democrats would have an ‘easy win’ with President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill — if they’d just cut out the two-thirds of it Republicans don’t like.
By Donna Provencher - April 05, 2021Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans will unanimously oppose President Joe Biden’s new jobs plan.
By Josh Israel - April 05, 2021Many of the old wells and mines are located in rural communities that have been hard-hit by the pandemic.
By Associated Press - April 03, 2021They’re conveniently forgetting that the definition of infrastructure includes energy, water, housing, transportation, and communications systems, too.
By Donna Provencher - April 01, 2021A new poll found a majority of Americans support raising taxes on corporations and those earning more than $400,000 a year to pay for President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan.
By Emily Singer - March 31, 2021It’s not the first time he’s stonewalled infrastructure spending for trumped-up reasons, either.
By Donna Provencher - March 30, 2021‘This report card is a warning and a call to action,’ said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
By Associated Press - March 07, 2021Republicans are challenging transit funds by demanding it be used for something already covered in the COVID relief bill
By Josh Israel - February 26, 2021The former vice president has proposed measures to help Americans buy homes and raise the minimum wage — among many other things.
By Associated Press - July 26, 2020