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In this March 28, 2019, file photo, traffic makes its way into Manhattan from Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge in New York. Long ringed by some of the most expensive toll roads in the U.S., New York City is poised to take things even further with a plan to use automated license plate readers to charge drivers who motor into the most congested parts of Manhattan during times when crosstown traffic is at its worst. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

New York City plans to use tolls in 2023 to ease congested traffic in Manhattan's business district

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. A Democratic economic package focused on climate and health care faces hurdles but seems headed toward party-line passage by Congress next month. Approval would let President Joe Biden and his party claim a triumph on top priorities just as November’s elections approach. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Democrats hopeful climate and health care bill will mobilize voters in vulnerable election year

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
The U. S Capitol, is seen on Friday, August 5, 2022 in Washington. Senate Democrats have agreed to eleventh-hour changes to their marquee economic legislation, they announced late Thursday, clearing the major impediment to pushing one of President Joe Biden’s paramount election-year priorities through the chamber in coming days. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Democrats' tax and climate spending bill clears Senate along party lines, heads to House

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate parliamentarian narrowed Democrats' plan for curbing drug prices but left it largely unscathed Saturday, Democrats said, as party leaders prepared to start moving their sprawling economic bill through the chamber. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Senate Democrats clear procedural hurdle on marquee tax and spending bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Parliamentarian scrub of Democrats' tax and spending bill nearly complete as Senate braces for slog

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
In this June 15, 2018, file photo, pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass. The Senate parliamentarian narrowed Democrats' plan for curbing drug prices but left it largely unscathed Saturday, Aug. 2, 2022, Democrats said, as party leaders prepared to start moving their sprawling economic bill through the chamber. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)

Prescription price controls chopped as Senate eyes debate on tax and spending bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a press conference on the Inflation Reduction Act, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Schumer sets weekend showdown for Democrats' tax and spending bill in Senate

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is seen at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

GOP targeting Democrats' energy taxes in climate spending bill

By Ramsey Touchberry and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
This May 4, 2021, photo shows the outside of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Taxpayers brace for 'supercharged' IRS under Dems' budget plan

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden administration to tap into $1T infrastructure package to extend high-speed internet access

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is met by reporters outside the hearing room where he chairs the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin reverses course, agrees to party-line spending deal on taxes, climate change

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
In this Oct. 24, 2021 file photo, an under contract sign tops the sales placard for a house on the market in Denver, Colorado. (AP Photo/Dave Zalubowski,File) **FILE**

Biden taps unspent COVID funds to combat skyrocketing home prices

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
An attendee at a gun rights rally open carries his gun in a holster that reads "We the People" from the Preamble to the United States Constitution. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ** FILE **

Congress pours $75M into gun research such as whether community gardens stop shootings

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
Emergency personnel gather at the entrance to a subway station in the Brooklyn borough of New York, after a gunman filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke and shot multiple people, April 12, 2022. A woman wounded in the shooting has filed a lawsuit against gun manufacturer Glock. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Biden to pitch $37 billion anti-crime plan in Pennsylvania amid surging gun violence

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Cost-of-living increase for Social Security may push seniors into higher tax bracket, say experts

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., talks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., before an event in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Joe Manchin rejects Democrats' climate, energy, tax proposals

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks at Max S. Hayes High School Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Dermer) **FILE**

Biden boasts historic job growth, calls on Congress to spend more

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks at Max S. Hayes High School Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Dermer) **FILE**

Biden touts 'incredible progress' on economy in bid to salvage Ohio's blue-collar vote

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
In this June 16, 2020 photo, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Senate Democrats revive talks to score wins by passing spending bill with party-line vote

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivers remarks as he talks about his budget accomplishments at a restaurant Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in Woodbridge, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

New laws on taxes, police accountability, voting measures taking effect in Virginia and Maryland

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters following a closed-door caucus lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell threatens to tank China bill over Democrats' tax-and-spend push

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
In this 2019 file photo, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is show on-site in New Carrollton, Maryland, announcing the installation of the first section of the Purple Line transit track being built in Maryland. The project is years behind schedule and billions over budget. (Photo courtesy of the Executive Office of the Governor) **FILE**

Feds to release list shaming over-budget and overdue transportation projects

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
In this April 13, 2014, file photo, the Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) building is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File) ** FILE **

Backlog is 'still crushing' IRS, agency's taxpayer advocate tells Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
High gas prices are shown as a pedestrian waits to cross the street in Los Angeles, June 16, 2022. President Joe Biden on June 22 will call on Congress to suspend the federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months. It's a move meant to ease financial pressures at the pump that also reveals the political toxicity of high gas prices in an election year.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Biden gas tax holiday faces revolt by top Democrats

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks about the newly approved COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden to call on Congress, states to temporarily waive gas taxes in bid to ease pain at the pump

By Ramsey Touchberry and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
Job seekers line up outside the New Hampshire Works employment security job center, Monday, May 10, 2021, in Manchester, N.H. States are pushing the unemployed to get back to work to help businesses large and small find the workers they need to emerge from the COVID-19 recession. Now some states are reinstating a requirement that anyone who collects unemployment must look for work. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Pandemic fraud syndicates eye next targets for theft of taxpayers' money

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing to examine President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Yellen wants more money to fix the 'awful' performance of the IRS

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen listens to lawmakers as she testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing to examine President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Yellen warns inflation to remain 'high,' force Biden to revise budget forecasts

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event with Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung, at the Grand Hyatt Seoul, Sunday, May 22, 2022, in Seoul. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

$1.9T COVID-19 relief advanced equity, boosted Black people and Hispanic people, report finds

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
This May 4, 2021 file photo shows the outside of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

IRS audits plummet as wealthy escape scrutiny, poorest taxpayers get hit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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