not only raising taxes on low income people but ending all federal programs including social security, medicare, medicaid, and the affordable care act. and in documents obtained exclusively from nbc news, message testing from a democratic research firm shows this could actually help the party, the dnc taking advantage, launching a national ad campaign attacking scotts plan and candidates across the country doing the same. here is florida senator candidate demmings. risk scott who now leaves the group responsible getting republicans elected to the senate has unveiled a plan to, quote, rescue america, that raises tax on more than half of americans. includes low income families, veterans and many retiries. scott s plan would end social security as we know it. where does marco rubio stand. i think it s good, that
many people coming from other communities where they re going to go back to, but i think we re going to do the best we can and hope for the best, but it s a tough situation. yeah, you also have a huge older population with a lot of retiries so yeah, very vulnerable population as well. dan gelber appreciate your time, thanks so much, happy holidays and happy new year. you too, amara, thank you very much. thank you. this last week of the year brings a new push to contain the rapidly spreading omicron variant, forcing government leaders to scramble to try to stop the spread which will potentially impact new years eve plans as we ve been discussing. cnn s international correspondents, take a look now at how omicron is prompting new restrictions. i m tom mcclain in london, while many countries are piling on restrictions in response to omicron variant, uk is reacting to record-high case counts with
conflicts of interest implicit in contributors to this organization getting access to the president? well, look, i respect fred and respectlook, i respect fred respect his opinion. but the fact of the matter is we are in a battle for priorities in this country. i can promise you one thing. those gigantic republican super packs, funded by a few interests will spend whatever they have to in whatever way, shape or form they must to protect their loop holes in the tax code, to protect tax rates. they will do whatever they have to in order to preserve their special interest. so the president has an obligation it reach out to grass roots and to reach out to as many people as we can to participate in our battle for right priorities for the middle class and retiries in this country. we have to leave it there. congressman steve israel, thanks for being with us today. thanks, andrea. what stories will make the 24 next on andrea mitchell
through how your taxes are different this year. i want to you see what we are getting. this is something forbes.com is getting to. some things are being rejected. a lot of people, especially retiries and veterans who are disabled did not realize that they were getting a $250 payment that you are seeing there. well, since they did not realize it, they did not claim it in a certain way, and now it s a back and forth about whether they did know or didn t. and some of the people find they have to go back now and claim that which they did not even know that they got in the first place. and here is another example of something going on. married coupled got $800 as part of the stimulus. each working individual could get up to $400. so married couples got $800. and in some cases, they were not supposed to get the full $800,