Budget
Senate plows through budget, rejecting most GOP ‘social issue’ schemes
August 11, 2021The blueprint passed could produce historic pro-worker change if lawmakers respond to the mass movements and their election mandates.
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On human infrastructure and Biden budget, heavy lifting remains
August 10, 2021Senate passes trillion-dollar bill fixing roads, subways, lead pipes, and broadband, but this vote is only the beginning.
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Labor, green groups unite to push Jobs Plan and Families Plan
June 30, 2021Congress seems hell-bent on passing a stripped-down version of the Jobs Plan and—thanks to rigid Senate Republican opposition and filibuster threats—doing nothing at all about the Families Plan.
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Progressive groups gather support for $6 trillion-plus ‘bigger than Biden’ budget bill
June 29, 2021Their “bigger than Biden bill” is nothing less than a moral imperative, they say, that would enable completion of the real work that has to be done.
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Biden budget: Boosts workers, families, corporate tax hikes
June 2, 2021The budget proposal from the White House is clearly the most progressive domestic budget plan since the New Deal.
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