Democrats are scrambling to get their priorities included in President Biden
Biden is expected to outline a package called the American Families Plan during a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. The package will focus on human infrastructure, such as child care and education.
The president sees the package as a way to help families get on a stronger footing than they were prior to the pandemic. But a number of Democrats want to go well beyond what Biden is expected to propose, including in areas such as tax credits for families, unemployment insurance and health care.
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Under regulations the Trump administration finalized last year, certain types of tax-exempt groups no longer have to provide the names and addresses of major donors on annual IRS forms. The disclosure requirement was removed for groups that include social welfare organizations such as the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union as well as business leagues and labor unions.
The groups still have to provide the IRS with the amounts of donations from major donors and keep the donor information in their records.
Republicans argued that the donor information isn t needed for tax enforcement and that removing the disclosure requirement helps to protect taxpayers First Amendment rights. While the donor names and addresses that tax-exempt groups had previously provided to the IRS were supposed to be kept private, Republicans were concerned that the information could inadvertently be made public.