Buttigieg: ‘The American Jobs Plan Is Fully Paid for’
Thursday on “CNN Newsroom,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg addressed concerns about how to fund President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan.
Thursday on “CNN Newsroom,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg addressed concerns about how to fund President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan.
A Monmouth University poll has reported 52 percent of Americans support the Senate filibuster blocking President Joe Biden’s tax increases.
CLAIM: President Joe Biden’s green jobs agenda “will create millions of good-paying jobs that “Americans can raise their families on.”
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Biden’s American Jobs Plan threatens American union jobs and the wages of millions of energy workers, union representatives have repeatedly said.
President Joe Biden spoke to a joint session of Congress Wednesday, touting tax increases from two initiatives as a way of “guaranteeing fairness and justice.”
President Joe Biden reintroduced the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan or “infrastructure” proposal Wednesday that would drastically alter American business.
The majority of the California Congressional Caucus sent a letter Thursday to President Joe Biden to urge the President to repeal the State and Local Tax (SALT) Cap limitations President Donald Trump signed into law.
Some Republicans, including Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), are working on their own alternative to President Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, which will be less than half of the size and reportedly focus primarily on infrastructure, unlike the president’s proposal, which includes a slew of left-wing initiatives unrelated to traditional infrastructure projects.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) defended President Biden’s $2 billion American Jobs Plan on Monday, seemingly defending the price tag by concluding the “most expensive maintenance is no maintenance.”
Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan — marketed as an “infrastructure” proposal — would create a “Soviet-style economy”, warned Rep. Scott Perry.
The focus of President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill is allegedly to address aging infrastructure across the country, but the massive bill covers a vast amount of other spending, including money for “diversifying” neighborhoods.
Republicans have slammed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for tweeting Wednesday that paid leave, child care, and caregiving are “infrastructure” related items to include into future infrastructure legislation.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) conveyed Monday there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal due to six or seven Democrats who oppose raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent.
Supporters of the California High-speed Rail Authority hope that President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion “infrastructure plan” will provide money to save the near-defunct project, especially with the backing of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan would place the United States in “a race to the bottom of jobs and growth,” Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) said.
The Biden Administration’s “American Jobs Plan,” ostensibly an infrastructure-funding bill, will facilitate the outsourcing of jobs to China “under the name of global warming” if enacted, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said.
A provision of President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, the American Jobs Plan, would erode “right-to-work” laws in states that do not force workers to join a union, and would include a controversial “card check” system.