When Republican lawmakers check in with the small businesses in their districts during the Christmas recess, they will likely hear one overriding message: Pass tax cuts now. According to Job Creators Network's new national poll, small businesses support extending the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which took effect in 2018 and expires next year, by a 5-to-1 margin.
These tax cuts have been a lifeline for small businesses nationwide that have dealt with four years of challeng...
Biden administration withdraws birth control rules
The Biden administration is withdrawing a set of proposed rules aimed at expanding access to contraception that would have made it more difficult for employer-sponsored health plans and insurers to exclude coverage of birth control.
The move, announced late Monday in a Federal Register notice, will leave in place Trump-era rules allowing employers to cite "non-religious moral objections" to the Affordable Care Act's requirement to cover contraception.
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Shutdown chaos has Republicans worried about moving Trump agenda
Republican lawmakers say Congress’s near brush with a government shutdown shows that House Republicans do not have a functional majority, giving them a bad feeling about how difficult it will be to pass President-elect Trump's agenda in 2025.
While Republicans in both chambers broadly agree on the need to secure the border and extend Trump’s expiring tax cuts, GOP senators fear that passing legislation to accomplish those goals, as well as raising the debt limit and cutting fe...
Biden ‘AWOL’ amid shutdown fight: ‘He’s completely disappeared’
President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week.
Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies were the ones wrestling with lawmakers over a continuing resolution as a government shutdown appeared increasingly inevitable.
The White House on Friday blew off a host of questioning over Biden’s absence from the talks, insisting they were staying out of it in part because it...
ACA enrollment marks another record year
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The GOP’s little House of horrors
Can the fragile GOP majority in the U.S. House Of Representatives bear the weight of Donald Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda? Will this version of Republican control of the peoples’ House be even more ineffectual and unstable than it was in the last two years? The early returns are not favorable for the future of the second Trump administration.
Trump doesn’t need a mandate because he has the power if he keeps Congress and the Supreme Court in line. But that’s a b...
Chris Matthews on Elon Musk: ‘This guy is an elephant in a china shop’
Former MSNBC anchor and political analyst Chris Matthews railed at Elon Musk on Friday for tanking the House continuing resolution (CR) that had been negotiated between Republicans and Democrats, and encouraging the GOP to take a hard line despite the rising risk of a government shutdown.
“You’ve heard of a bull in a china shop — this guy is an elephant in a china shop,” Matthews said during a Friday appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
“These negotiations between t...
A pragmatic antitrust vision for the new administration
President-elect Trump recently announced the nomination of his former National Economic Council member Gail Slater as assistant attorney general for antitrust at the Department of Justice and chose current Federal Trade Commission commissioner Andrew Ferguson to head that agency.
Trump’s antitrust enforcers’ priorities will include prosecuting market power abuse by “big tech,” supporting consumers and “little tech,” and enforcing “clear rules...
The US government could shut down. Here’s what to know
If lawmakers don’t secure a spending deal before Friday midnight, all nonessential government functions will pause
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A government shutdown looms after Republicans in Congress failed on Thursday to pass a pared-down spending bill. The potential shutdown could disrupt Christmas travel and deliver a blow to the US economy just a month before Donald Trump returns to the White House.
Lawmakers face a last...
Biden is one of our greatest presidents — smears won’t tarnish his legacy
America’s greatest presidents were sometimes treated like punching bags in office — insulted and vilified by opponents. President Biden has endured the same undeserved treatment. But I expect that, like other great presidents, history will judge him more accurately.
Biden has been a historically transformative president. His landmark domestic accomplishments are comparable to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
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