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Biden’s Budget Includes Tax Hikes Targeting Corporations and the Rich
While the plan still keeps corporate tax rates relatively low, progressives applauded the hikes as "long overdue."
Biden’s 2024 Budget Calls for Revival of Expanded Child Tax Credit
The expanded child tax credit kept millions of adults and children out of poverty in 2021.
Tennessee’s New Anti-Drag Law Could Subject Performers to Up to 6 Years in Jail
Under the state law, performing publicly in drag is a misdemeanor, and “repeat offenders” could be charged with a felony.
GOP’s Debt Limit Plan Would Cost 2.6 Million Jobs, Report Finds
“House Republicans are playing politics with millions of jobs,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.
CPAC Speakers Made “Genocidal” Comments Against Trans Community, Observers Warn
The GOP has the goal of "pushing trans people out of public life and eradicating transness," says ACLU's Chase Strangio.
Mississippi Republicans Want Their Own Cops and Judges in Majority-Black Jackson
Black leaders compare the push to expand a state police force responsible for recent shootings to “apartheid.”
Walgreens Restricting Abortion Pill Sales Due to Coordinated GOP Threat
The move is the latest example of the vast chilling effect of abortion bans, even in states where abortion is legal.
Republicans Are Working on Making 70 the New Social Security Retirement Age
Republicans claim they don’t want to cut Social Security — but they’re working behind the scenes to do just that.
There Isn’t a State in Which a Majority Think Abortion Should Be Totally Illegal
Even in states where outlawing all abortions is the most popular, support caps out at 14 percent, new polling finds.
Republicans Unveil Bill to Make AR-15-Style Rifle the “National Gun”
AR-15-style weapons have been used in some of the deadliest shootings in modern U.S. history.