President Biden is headed to Europe on Wednesday, an inopportune time for his first foreign trip as president as his domestic priorities hit the rocks.
“To the surprise of nobody that I know, the rich and the powerful avoid paying their fair share of taxes,” said Sanders, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
Warren and Sanders both proposed wealth taxes during their 2020 presidential campaigns, but Biden did not. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
Biden has proposed paying for his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, focused on areas such as child care and education, through tax increases on high-income households that include raising the top individual tax rate from 37 percent to 39.6 percent and taxing capital gains at the same rates as ordinary income for high earners. He has also proposed paying for his $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, focused on transportation and addressing climate change, through higher taxes on corporations.
Laxalt is making plans to run against Cortez Masto this year. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo (R), North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee (R) and businessman Eddie Hamilton (R) have all said they will challenge Sisolak, though other candidates are considering the race.
The tumult in the Nevada Democratic Party recalls a similar schism on the other side of the aisle, among Nevada Republicans, a decade ago. In 2012, the Republican National Committee (RNC) moved to sideline the Nevada Republican Party, which had been taken over by acolytes of former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). The RNC and then-presidential nominee Mitt Romney
In an interview on Hill.TV’s “Rising,” Gray reacted to news that Biden had cut off talks with Republicans on an infrastructure deal, instead now engaging with a bipartisan group of senators to reach a compromise.
Gray said, however, that she doesn’t think opposition from Republicans or a few more moderate Democrats are to blame for the lack of progress on infrastructure and other spending negotiations.
“I think that this whole last three or four months or so has been a really important lesson for those that might have thought that it was enough to go blue no matter who, get a Democrat in office and presume that the ‘D’ next to their name meant they had some kind of foundational commitment to the ideals we thought we broadly shared,” Gray argued.