is brilliant, i m happy, good job, disney, but i m talking about a living wage. i m talking about employers treating every single one of their employees as though they were in that job, or as though their son or daughter were in that job. this is personal for you, obviously, you have made clear, but is this about changing companies and corporate culture? or is this about changing laws? does a billionaires tax fix what you have learned through filming this? this is a question of both. the problem is you can never boil things down to one thing. i know for a fact that a campaign was waged to change our country s norms around how companies should handle their employees, what it was each american s job to do to take care of themselves. we went from somewhat of a communal culture making sured
bigger bill on retirement savings that is stalled. and the widow tax fix which by the way has unanimous support in the senate is attached to the bill that funds the entire defense department. that funding is due to expire on thursday. and congress still has not moved this forward. so when gold star families start filing their taxes, as some people do as early as january, february, march, these kids are going to get hit with this tax increase, this huge tax increase for a second year unless congress does what it says it wants to do. we ll be tracking that, and you can fined that column and others at homefront. that is at on cnn.com/home front. and also, please share your comments or story ideas. you can send me your story idea at cnn.com. that is it for me. newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now.
in 1998, this president is not being impeached, they re talking about it and their politics are much more polarized now. so it is wrong to pin washington paralysis solely on the stare down between the president and the house democrats. still the list of things he will up by today s deepening dysfunctioning is significant. a t a tax fix for the gold star families and budget and spending bills and debt ceiling hike and the new trade deal with canada and mexico. we are not optimistic on this sunday. perhaps when they come back of the disaster bill, chip roy objected, just wants everybody to vote. it will be done in an overwhelming manner. the issues that s out there they would like to do or infrastructure or prescription
this week we re also passing urgently needed fix for military families facing tax hikes under the gop tax scam. with the kiddie tax, republicans took half a billion dollars from working families and gave it to big corporations and the wealthy. half a billion dollars. the kiddie tax. it is unacceptable surviving children of our fallen heroes who suffered so much are now forced to pay thousands of additional dollars in taxes on their benefits. they cannot be forced to sacrifice twice. as democrats take action to protect military families who are also hard at work to protect our workers in stark contrast to republicans special interest agenda. today in the same legislation that contains the kiddie tax act, to tax fix, to fix what the republicans did in their tax scam, we are passing the secure
the gop tax scam. with the kitty tax, republicans took half a billion dollars from working and middle-class families and gave it to big corporations and the wealthy. a half a billion dollars. the kitty tax. it s unacceptable that surviving children of our fallen heroes who have suffered so much are now forced to pay thousands of additional dollars in taxes on their benefits. they cannot be forced to sacrifice twice. as democrats take action to protect military families, we also are hard at work to protect our workers in stark contrast to republican special interest agenda. today, in the same legislation that contains the kitty tax act, the tax fix, to fix what the republicans did in their tax scam, we re passing the secure act. we re passing strong measures to help workers have a secure retirement. and yesterday, congressman