opening act of a sweeping progressive agenda on the horizon for the country. will it backfire for democrats come 2022? karl rove is here for white board wisdom. first, as embattled new york governor andrew cuomo faces calls from more than 160 lawmakers to resign or be impeached, new allegations that his covid-19 testing czar made inappropriate calls to state officials to gauge their loyalty to cuomo with one official claiming that they feareded their counting vaccine supplies could suffer if loyalty was not offered. new york city mayor bill de blasio wants those claims looked into it. deserves an investigation immediately. because the idea that this is how we save lives and it must be handled not with politics, not for political gain, but to actually help people and to do it fairly, that is what is at stake here. and i am very worried about the corruption we re hearing about here. cuomo facing duel scandals over nursing home deaths and allegations of sexual harassment.
might you go about paying for some or all of that. democrats right now are talking in part about potentially raising taxes on both the highest of earners and on corporations as well. the white house press secretary, jen psaki, was asked today if there s any concerns about raising taxes and whether or not that could be a drag on the economy. the president remains committed to his pledge from the campaign. nobody making under $400,000 a year will have their taxes increased. his priority and focus has been on people paying their fair share. also focusing on corporations that may not be paying their fair share either. that remains his overarching approach, but there s not a package that we re talking about pay-fors yet. meantime on capitol hill, nancy pelosi has made it clear that tax hikes are on the table. we ll look at everything. we ll look at the tax code, bonding in terms of build america bonds enables us to do so much in our package under president obama and vice pre