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President Joe Biden, joined virtually by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaks about a national security initiative from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden's 'long overdue' tax hikes span from Wall Street to Main Street, from superwealthy to smokers

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as work continues on the Democrats' Build Back Better Act, massive legislation that is a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Liberal groups prod Dems to raise taxes to pay for racial justice agenda

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
In this July 16, 2019, file photo, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., listens to witnesses during a hearing on 2020 census on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Biden to meet with Manchin, Sinema as $3.5T spending bill hangs in balance

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as work continues on the Democrats' Build Back Better Act, massive legislation that is a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

'We all must come together now': Senate Dems struggle for unity to finish $3.5 trillion bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, the ranking member, center right, make opening statements as the tax-writing panel continues work on the Democrats' sweeping proposal for tax hikes on big corporations and the wealthy to fund President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion domestic rebuilding plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Democrats break Biden's pledge not to raise taxes on individuals making less than $400K

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. arrives as the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package is expected to be voted on by the Senate this morning on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats maneuver behind the scenes to secure amnesty provisions in Biden's $3.5T spending bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

'No SALT, no deal': Vulnerable Dems threaten revolt unless $3.5T bill cuts blue-states taxes

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., presides over a markup hearing to craft the Democrats' Build Back Better Act, massive legislation that is a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

House Dems propose one of the largest tax increases ever to pay for Biden's $3.5T spending bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key negotiator in the infrastructure talks, is surrounded by reporters as walks through the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democratic disunity threatens to tank Biden's domestic agenda

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Immigrant youth and advocates rally to the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton on the day of the Supreme Court's hearing on DACA in Austin, Texas, in this July 2019 file photo. (Lola Gomez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File) **FILE**

Taxpayers to foot bill for amnesty under House proposal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., presides over a markup hearing to craft the Democrats' Build Back Better Act, massive legislation that is a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. The high cost of the bill, to help families and combat climate change, would be financed in part by increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dems start assembling $3.5 trillion social welfare bill: 'If that's socialistic, count me in'

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
Sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington in this file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Economic slowdown, Biden's falling polls imperil big spending bills

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Eli Lilly & Co. corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Drug companies say Dems' plan will wipe them 'off the face of the earth'

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Dems split over fed health help for elderly or poor in $3.5 trillion bill

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks during a briefing about the impact of Hurricane Ida, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Hillsborough Township, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden wants $30B for disaster aid, Afghan resettlement and stopgap spending bill

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
In this May 7, 2020, file photo, a pregnant woman wearing a face mask and gloves holds her belly as she waits in line for groceries at St. Mary's Church in Waltham, Mass. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in hot spots around the U.S. see disturbingly high numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Social Security predicts pandemic birth blip, not birth dearth

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
In this file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Park or pork? House Republicans roast Pelosi over $200 million for San Francisco's Presidio

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
In this Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, file photo, a plane takes off from Washington Reagan National Airport as a large U.S. flag is unfurled at the Pentagon ahead of ceremonies at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial to honor the 184 people killed in the 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, in Washington, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ** FILE **

House panel rejects Biden's Pentagon budget in bipartisan vote, ups military spending by $25B

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
In this Tuesday, May 18, 2021, file photo, flares burn natural gas from oil production in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation east of New Town, North Dakota. Oil pumped from Native American lands in the U.S. increased about tenfold since 2009 to more than 130 million barrels annually, bringing new wealth to a small number of tribes. Tribes left out of the drilling boom have become increasingly outspoken against fossil fuels as climate change's impacts grow worse. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

House Dems eye scrapping fossil fuel subsidies to pay for $3.5T spending package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this Sept. 29, 2020, file photo, a sale pending sign is displayed outside a residential home for sale in East Derry, N.H. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in July for the second month in a row, though they only increased modestly from a year ago, suggesting the red-hot housing market may be cooling off a little. Existing homes sales rose 2% last month from June to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.99 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

White House announces plan to build 100K affordable homes

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., center, and Rep. Bruce Westerman, R- Ark., left, walk to the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

House GOP urges Dems to delay $3.5T spending package amid domestic, foreign woes

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
A shopper guides a cart past a line of gigantic boxes of breakfast cereals in a Costco warehouse on Thursday, June 17, 2021, in Lone Tree, Colo. Inflation at the wholesale level jumped 1% in June, pushing price gains over the past 12 months up by a record 7.3%. The Labor Department reported Wednesday, June 14 that the June increase in its producer price index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach consumers, followed a gain of 0.8% in May and was the largest one-month increase since January. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Inflation emerges as 2022 campaign issue; GOP blames Dems' big spending for soaring prices

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
A "Now Hiring" sign is shown at a business in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

U.S. jobless claims rise by 4,000 to 353,000

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press
In this Thursday July 29, 2021, photo, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's ranking member, speaks during a hearing on voting rights in Texas in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Top House Oversight Republican doubles down on 'IRS Snowden' probe

By Haris Alic and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves the chamber after urging advancement of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named for the late Georgia congressman who made the issue a defining one of his career, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House advances Biden's $3.5 trillion liberal wish list; Pelosi beats moderate Dems in power play

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Democratic leaders discuss their legislative agenda, including voting rights, public health, and infrastructure, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Pelosi forced to retreat on $3.5T spending bill after pushback from moderate Dems, delays vote

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden's new 'death tax' threatens family farms, small businesses

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times
In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nine moderate House Democrats are trying to upend leaders' plans for enacting President Joe Biden's multitrillion-dollar domestic agenda. Top Democrats want the House to quickly approve a budget resolution setting up future passage of legislation directing $3.5 trillion at safety net and environment programs. But the moderates are threatening to oppose the budget unless the House first approves a $1 trillion infrastructure package. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

White House privately begs Dems to back spending: 'Can not afford to lose' amid Afghanistan fiasco

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Clockwise from left, Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will confer Wednesday, June 23, with White House officials on next steps for President Joe Biden's nearly $4 trillion infrastructure plans as talks with Republicans see-saw in search of a potential deal.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden's 'transformative vision,' Democrats' plans unfazed by meltdown in Afghanistan

By Seth McLaughlin and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Conservative group hits 13 House Dems with 6-figure pressure campaign to oppose Biden spending bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

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