GO IT TOGETHER?
Democrats and Republicans have fallen out of the habit of working together, as President Donald Trump’s tenure was mostly dominated by partisan division. But they have edged a bit closer to bipartisanship on some topics since Biden took office, including on police reform, gun control and efforts to reduce violence against women.
All of those bills are still heavy lifts in the evenly divided, 50-50 Senate. But negotiations are underway, and members of both parties have signaled that they want legislation passed.
Both parties say they were encouraged last week by the Senate approval of a bill to combat the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The legislation passed 94-1 after Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii worked with Republicans to reach a compromise. In his speech, Biden thanked the Senate and urged the House “to do the same and send that legislation to my desk as soon as possible.”
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President Joe Biden made history delivering his first address to Congress earlier this week. The day not only marked the eve of his 100th day in office, but for the first time in American history, the president was joined by two women on the dais of the Chamber.
Biden began his speech with a strong sense of assurance to the American people stating, “Now after just 100 days I can report to the nation: America is on the move again. Turning peril into possibility. Crisis into opportunity. Setback into strength.” The Biden administration is expected to be ontrack to getting tens of millions of Americans vaccinated and to pull the nation out of an economic crisis.
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Biden cites left-leaning study that 55 of top U.S. companies paid no federal income taxes Craig Harris, USA TODAY
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday night said some of America s largest corporations pay no taxes, giving a big boost to recent research by the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
Biden, during his first address to a joint session of Congress, didn t mention the group by name, but he did directly pull data from the group s early April report in calling for major corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. A recent study shows that 55 of the nation s biggest corporations paid zero in federal income tax last year. No federal taxes on more than $40 billion in profits, the president said. That s not right. We re going to reform corporate taxes.