Democrats, with bare majorities in Congress on the line in the November midterm elections, are trying to advance President Joe Biden’s social safety net promises this year while Republicans decry what they see as escalating costs. Taxes, climate initiatives, and how best to help U.S. companies compete against China will figure prominently as both parti.
A new session of Congress opens as Democrats grapple to find a path forward for their agenda before the November midterm elections. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden today is set to announce plans to combat food price inflation by targeting the market power of meatpacking giants.
May 19, 2021 6:03 AM By Brandon Lee
Senate Republicans are calling on top Biden administration officials to walk back support of an international plan to waive Covid-19 vaccine IP protections, calling the decision a âgiveawayâ to China and India that will only promote âvaccine nationalism.â
Countries like China that regularly steal U.S. intellectual property began urging the World Trade Organization to waive IP rights âalmost immediately after these vaccines were proven to work,â Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote in a letter today to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
âThese nations are falsely claiming that granting such a waiver would speed the development of new vaccine capacity. Nothing could be further from the truth,â they said in the letter, obtained by Bloomberg Law.
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