they went from the framework to the real bill, legislative 1680 pages i believe. almost the last 200 of those pieces are the tax provision that i spent monday. so the billionaire s tax is out, it did not make the cut. but the tax on short stops and quarterbacks that s in there. they have created these new tax brackets that i have been begging for for decades now. a new tax bracket that kicks in at $10 million of income. that is going to get a lot of shortstop s. and then the tom brady tax kicks in at $20 million of income. it s an additional 5% at $10 million of income, and then over $20 million of income another 3%. so, they are getting at some of these superrich that way, movie star people who get these money through salary. they are going to get hit. but the investment banker class, and others who managed to get their income in something other than direct salary income, they may find ways around this. right, the people who still have are sitting on billions of dollars
about the election results. meanwhile, the department of justice, the current one, weighing potential criminal charges against the ex-presidential aide turned right-wing podcaster steve bannon over his refual to coop cooperate over the subpoena. every democrat in the house voted in favor of this. nine republicans joined with democrats which is indicative of how divided this country s political parties are over things they should come to consensus on. the capitol was attacked by violent mob supporters of a failed president. we all witnessed it. democrats want to get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen. most people want to brush it under the rug from the other party. this dismissal doesn t make sense to rational people until you think of the gop s real audience. a party attempts to mainstream extremism. when it comes to bannon, he is portraying himself as a martyr for a cause and defending those who stormed the capitol. they want to portray as brave patriots when th
on right before our eyes from president biden, he said tonight that he absolutely is open to changing that role for voting rights legislation, and he said for other things, and possibly for other things, he also made it very very clear tonight that the reason he hasn t been able to do any of that stuff, or talk about any of that stuff in a detailed way is, that would create for more problems with joe manchin, more problems with senator sinema, more problems with some other moderate democrats, and so he doesn t want to get into that rules fight. until he gets that legislative package done, but he isn t, he s not going to stay out of it once he gets his package done. the question is chicken and egg, right? can t get the legislative package done if you talk about those things. if you don t deal with those things, you can t get the legislative package done. i mean, we will see. to the extent the legislative package includes voting rights, right, to the extent his priorities inc
one-time head of trump s campaign, later white house chief strategist, refusing to cooperate with a subpoena from the house committee investigating the insurrection, the riot at our capitol. today s house vote largely along party lines, to 29 2:02, with only nine republicans joining the democrats in voting yes, there was liz cheney of wyoming adam kinzinger of illinois, both members of the january six committee, also peter meijer, fred upton of michigan, john katko the upstate new york republican who negotiated a bipartisan deal for the investigation that was in rejected by gop leadership. today s yes votes also included, as you can see anthony council votes to ohio, jamie growler of washington state, those seven had all voted to impeach donald trump last year over the insurrection, the eight and nine gop votes brian fitzpatrick, pennsylvania, 90 mason south carolina who offered two reasons for her own decision. if mr. bannon wants to invoke executive privilege he should co