NY House Democrats threaten to oppose legislation without SALT-cap repeal
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By Emilie Munson | Times Union, Albany
Washington House Democrats from New York are threatening to oppose future tax legislation unless it includes a repeal of the state and local tax deduction cap, amping up the pressure on congressional leadership to make that change in the package they’re planning to tether to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.
Democrats in New York’s House delegation except U.S. reps. Kathleen Rice, D- Garden City, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D- Bronx, signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., saying: “This issue is so critical to our state and our constituents that we will reserve the right to oppose any tax legislation that does not include a full repeal of the SALT limitation.”
The roads, bridges, projects CT hopes Biden infrastructure plan funds
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A northbound Metro-North train passes across the railroad bridge spanning Cos Cob Harbor in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Conn. Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. The state Department of Transportation said replacing the bridge is a priority project for federal funding from President Joe Biden’s proposed infrastructure bill.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
WASHINGTON Connecticut’s Department of Transportation has already drawn up a list of priority projects they hope will secure funding from President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package that he proposed two weeks ago.
State officials want to nab a bit of the $621 billion earmarked for transportation projects to reduce congestion on I-84 in Danbury, build new bus systems in New Haven, Bridgeport and Stamford, replace three bridges on the New Haven rail line, and upgrade the Stamford Transportation Center, according to a
Get on it Joe! : How a strengthening gun violence prevention coalition pushed Biden to act
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 8, 2021. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)Yuri Gripas / TNS
WASHINGTON In the first two months of President Joe Biden’s administration, many of the nation’s most powerful gun violence prevention groups were dismayed with the leadership of the man they thought was going to be their strongest champion.
While they were receiving private meetings, they felt American gun deaths were placed on the back-burner by an administration single-mindedly pursing the COVID-19 pandemic. After multiple mass shootings and deaths in March, Alexis Confer, executive director of March for Our Lives, and Greg Jackson, national advocacy director at Community Justice Action Fund, flipped texts message back and forth saying “we’ve got to do something.”
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After American Jobs plan, DeLauro pushes Biden for major social safety net upgrade
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NEW HAVEN, CT - MARCH 26: (L-R) Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) greets U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris upon arrival at Tweed-New Haven Airport on March 26, 2021 in New Haven, Connecticut. Harris is traveling to New Haven, Connecticut to promote the Biden administration s recently passed $1.9 billion federal stimulus package. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Drew Angerer / Getty Images
WASHINGTON As President President Joe Biden’s unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan Wednesday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top House Democrat in charge of federal spending, praised the huge investments to improve the nation’s roads, schools, power grid and manufacturing, but she’s already thinking what’s not included.