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Biden Trying to Sell Domestic Agenda During West Coast Trip

SEATTLE — On a trip to the Pacific Northwest this week, President Biden observed the construction of an earthquake-proof airport runway, paid for with funds from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law. He unveiled a plan to restore national forests devastated by wildfires. It supported a largely unfulfilled climate agenda. He also spoke out loud …

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Crypto Industry Helps Government Write and Pass Its Own Agenda

In July, the government ordered a dozen ATM providers selling crypto for cash, including Cash Cloud, Coin Now and DigiCash, to sign up as money transmitters despite the objections of companies. Documents obtained by The Times. Last year, Mr. Aloupis introduced invoice Following lobbying appeals by Mr Armes and the Florida Blockchain Business Association, a …

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Crypto Industry Helps Government Write and Pass Its Own Agenda

In July, the government ordered a dozen ATM providers selling crypto for cash, including Cash Cloud, Coin Now and DigiCash, to sign up as money transmitters despite the objections of companies. Documents obtained by The Times. Last year, Mr. Aloupis introduced invoice Following lobbying appeals by Mr Armes and the Florida Blockchain Business Association, a …

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Vacancies in Top Health and Science Jobs Could Threaten Biden’s Agenda

WASHINGTON – Inaugurated President Biden swear “Revive our national science and technology strategy” now faces a leadership vacuum that could threaten its ambitious research agenda that goes far beyond tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Both the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health lack lasting leaders. Mr. Biden’s health secretary, Xavier Becerra, has …

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Inflation Miscalculation Complicating Biden’s Agenda

WASHINGTON – President Biden’s top economists concerned from the very beginning of his administration He said rising inflation could prevent the economy from emerging from recession under his presidency. Last spring, Mr. Biden’s advisers made a prediction error that helped turn his fears into reality; a calculation that spanned this week’s re-nomination decision. Federal Reserve …

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Persistent Inflation Threatens Biden’s Agenda

WASHINGTON — A team of President Biden’s top advisers meets at Zoom at least once a week to address the nation’s problems. supply chain crisis. They discuss ways to lighten the backlog in America’s ports, ramp up semiconductor production for struggling automakers, and inflate the ranks of America’s truck drivers. The talks are geared towards …

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Biden Heads To Scranton To Sell The Shrinking Agenda

WASHINGTON — President Biden will travel to his childhood hometown of Scranton, PA, on Wednesday to sue for an economic, environmental, and social policy agenda that Congressional Democrats have slashed in hopes of getting a deal to pass legislation this fall. . The visit came after Mr Biden acknowledged that key elements of his proposal …

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Key to Biden’s Climate Agenda Likely Cut Due to Manchin

WASHINGTON – The strongest piece of President Biden’s climate agenda – his program to rapidly replace the nation’s coal and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and nuclear power – will likely be removed from the massive budget bill pending in Congress. Congressmen and lobbyists are familiar with the issue. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin III …

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Biden Returns to His Agenda Hoping to Bring Moderates Together

WASHINGTON — President Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress have recently curbed America’s ambitions to expand its social safety net to a package worth nearly $2 trillion or less; the president’s agenda. The figure is significantly less than Mr. Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending programs and tax increases, which cover everything from climate change to education …

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Lobbying at High Speed ​​as Biden’s Agenda Balances

WASHINGTON — As centrist Democrats in Congress work to block or abolish key provisions of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social safety net and climate plan, a series of online advertisements have popped up in their states and territories, praising them. someone calls Arizona Senator Kyrsten CinemaEmerging as a leading stance on the measure, an “independent …

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Pelosi Hunts for Infrastructure Votes as Democrats’ Case on the Agenda

He was more in line with other Democrats on payables for the package and supported several rollbacks of the Trump-era tax cut in 2017; increasing the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 25 percent; set a top individual income tax rate of 37 percent to 39.6 percent; and raising the capital gains tax rate …

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Democrats Move to Avoid Shutdown, but Divisions Imperil Biden’s Agenda

WASHINGTON — Democrats drafted legislation Wednesday to avoid a government shutdown this week, but conservative-leaning conservatives were desperately trying to bail out President Biden’s domestic agenda as he opposed an ambitious $3.5 trillion social safety net and climate bill that bears many of the party’s many. top priorities. Congressional leaders acted to address the most …

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