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'Biden has contaminated the historic public support for LEGAL immigration': Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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'Biden has contaminated the historic public support for LEGAL immigration'
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Krysten Sinema Agrees to Climate and Tax Deal: The Arizona Democrat had been her party’s last remaining holdout on the package, now slated to move forward on ...
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Krysten Sinema Agrees to Climate and Tax Deal
Quick Glance: Senator Sinema, a key member of the United States Senate, has agreed to a $430 billion drug and energy plan.
  • WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Democratic U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said on Thursday that she agreed to "move forward" on a $430 billion drug price, energy, and tax measure that Democrats intend to pass over Republican objections.

  • Democrats intend to approve the package without Republican backing through a parliamentary process called as reconciliation, with the Senate's 100 seats split 50-50.

  • Sinema stated that she and other Democrats had achieved an agreement to eliminate a clause that would levy new taxes on carried interest.

  • In a statement, Schumer stated that he now felt he had the votes to pass the package.
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Democrats reach agreement on economic package, setting the stage for a Senate vote
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Democrats reach agreement on economic package, setting the stage for a ...
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Sinema Reaches Deal with Democrats on Reconciliation: After a week of silence, Sinema announced her support for a revised version of the major spending package.
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Sinema Reaches Deal with Democrats on Reconciliation
Quick Glance: The Hill's Morning Report -- Democrats on the verge of passing a budget bill
  • Democrats plan to replace it with a new excise tax on stock buybacks, which is estimated to generate more revenue than the item Sinema dropped (The Associated Press).

  • Brittney Griner, 31, was convicted of narcotics possession with criminal intent in a Russian court on Thursday.

  • "What is at stake is extremely serious and extremely grave and dangerous," he declared (The New York Times).

  • The Associated Press investigates how states are responding.
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Sinema Received Over $500K From Private Equity Before Shielding Industry From Tax Hikes
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Sinema Received Over $500K From Private Equity Before Shielding Industry ...
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Schumer defends dropping carried interest tax change to win over Sinema: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he had no choice but to remove a ...
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Schumer defends dropping carried interest tax change to win over Sinema
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been cozying up to Wall Street and the über rich for years
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been cozying up to Wall Street and the über rich ...
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Kyrsten Sinema stuck her neck out twice to hand rich investors big wins in Democrats' climate and tax bill
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Kyrsten Sinema stuck her neck out twice to hand rich investors big wins in ...
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Wall Street barons did not buy Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's vote. Let's set the record straight
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Wall Street barons did not buy Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's vote ...
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Democratic anxiety grows over Sinema’s silence: Senate Democrats are growing more anxious over maverick Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-Ariz.) five-day silence on a ...
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Democratic anxiety grows over Sinema’s silence
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Democrats’ big package: What remains in and what’s out?: What’s in, and out, of the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” as it stands now.
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Democrats’ big package: What remains in and what’s out?
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With Sinema’s help, private equity firms win relief from proposed tax hikes: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), a must-have vote for the legislation ...
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With Sinema’s help, private equity firms win relief from proposed tax ...
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'A Lot Better Than Build Back Better': Big Business Relieved as Dems Go Light on Tax Hikes
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'A Lot Better Than Build Back Better': Big Business Relieved as Dems Go ...
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Sinema lingers as huge question mark as Manchin bill vote nears: Manchin spent part of Thursday pitching Sinema on the Senate floor to win her vote on his ...
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Sinema lingers as huge question mark as Manchin bill vote nears
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The Deepening Mystery of Kyrsten Sinema: The Arizona senator effectively leverages her power, but her ends are unclear.
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The Deepening Mystery of Kyrsten Sinema
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What Kyrsten Sinema Has Said About Corporate Tax Rate: The Arizona Democrat has been a hurdle to President Joe Biden's legislative agenda.
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What Kyrsten Sinema Has Said About Corporate Tax Rate
Quick Glance: Shrinking economy raises recession fears; Biden calls Manchin deal a "godsend" for families | Hot off the Wire podcast
  • According to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, at least three individuals have died as a result of floods.

  • Last Thursday, "The Chris Cuomo Project," a weekly YouTube video and podcast, debuted.

  • Cuomo disclosed in an interview with NewsNation presenter Dan Abrams that he will host a prime-time show for that new cable network beginning in the fall.

  • According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Washington has offered Russia a compromise that would bring Griner and another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan, home.
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Democrats move closer to sweeping tax, climate change and health care bill: Senate Democrats are one step closer to passing a sweeping tax, climate change ...
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Democrats move closer to sweeping tax, climate change and health care bill
Quick Glance: The Kyrsten Sinema Viewing Party
  • "Sinema could do anything right now," said a senior staffer on Tuesday.

  • Sinema and Manchin were seen on the Senate floor together at three o'clock on Thursday afternoon.

  • "Thanks, Ted," Sinema replied.

  • Sinema grinned and clapped.
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Democrats want to end carried interest tax loophole, Sinema will likely object: Democrats are suddenly tiptoeing closer to a deal on Biden's economic agenda ...
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Democrats want to end carried interest tax loophole, Sinema will likely ...
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Manchin and Sinema throw re-election bids in doubt with Biden agenda vote: Democrats are staring at a rough political map in two years.
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Manchin and Sinema throw re-election bids in doubt with Biden agenda vote
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Inflation Reduction Act keeps a tax loophole that even Trump hated: The past three presidents — including Trump — have tried to get rid of a tax loophole for the ...
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Inflation Reduction Act keeps a tax loophole that even Trump hated
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Stock market news today: Stocks climb, oil and bonds fall: Stocks were higher Monday after Democrats passed a key piece of President Biden's agenda Sunday ...
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Stock market news today: Stocks climb, oil and bonds fall
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GOP, Democrats feuding over taxes with eye on Kyrsten Sinema: Republicans are pummeling Dems for seeking corporate tax hikes they argue will get passed onto ...
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GOP, Democrats feuding over taxes with eye on Kyrsten Sinema
Quick Glance: Harris Faulkner, a Fox News anchor, loses it when Joe Manchin questions her patriotism.
  • "My father served," an enraged Faulkner retorted to Manchin, insisting that the West Virginia lawmaker not make it "personal."

  • "Well, sounds like you are," Manchin remarked quietly.

  • Following that heated exchange, Faulkner pressed Manchin on the poor approval numbers Biden is "rocking right now," remarking that the West Virginia senator doesn't sound particularly supportive of his own party.

  • People who dislike the president and Democrats may be disappointed.
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The Democrats have taken aim at the stock market's safety net by taxing buybacks - potentially creating another headwind for investors
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The Democrats have taken aim at the stock market's safety net by taxing ...
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'We expect it to be removed': Democrats' push to close 'carried interest loophole' in jeopardy as Sinema seeks to block effort
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'We expect it to be removed': Democrats' push to close 'carried interest ...