The Economy
Democrats passed the Enhanced Child Tax Credit in 2021 in the American Rescue Plan. “The measure increased the child tax credit from $2,000 to $3,600 for qualifying children under 6…
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The GOP is vowing to lower corporate taxes immediately if they retake Congress in November, another warning sign that Republican leadership will destabilize the economy and make inflation worse if…
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Florida’s Republican Senator Marco Rubio has received over $250,000 in donations from the oil and gas industries since he began his senior Senator seat in 2011. Oil companies are price…
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The U.S. Treasury released the deficit figures for the end of fiscal year 2022. “The federal deficit went up every single year in the Trump administration — every single year…
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The choice between combatting inflation and protecting democracy is false. The 2022 midterms are one of the most important elections of our lifetimes — democracy hangs in the balance. Almost…
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“We got screwed and there was not a freaking thing we could do about it. There was no way to fight multimillionaires,” said Scott Scheuerman, a farmer who had urged…
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Ted Budd, Congressman from North Carolina and current senate candidate, has taken over $195,000 from the oil, gas, and energy industries. In May, he hosted a private fundraiser with Continental…
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Adam Laxalt and his wife own tens of thousands of dollars worth of stock in Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil, and other oil and gas businesses. He works at Cooper & Kirk,…
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The GOP has made inflation a key talking point this cycle. Global inflation is a problem and Democrats have been working on plans to help give relief to Americans by…
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Since 2009, Ron Johnson, Senator of Wisconsin, has taken over $750,000 from the oil, gas, and energy industries. This period covers his tenure since he was first elected in 2010. …
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Oil companies have pumped nearly $30 million into Republican campaigns this election cycle with House minority leader Kevin McCarthy alone getting nearly half a million dollars. Oil executives are publicly…
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The Dallas Federal Reserve surveyed executives of American oil companies to find out why they weren’t drilling to meet demand among soaring gas prices. The response is unsurprising. Their investors…
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The latest lie is that Biden ended U.S. energy independence. Energy independence is achieved when U.S. companies produce (and export) more oil and energy resources than we import. If you’re…
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Ron Johnson, the Republican Senator from Wisconsin who is up for re-election, voted for the 2017 Trump Tax Law, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which gave…
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J.D. Vance’s campaign is propped up by billionaires like Peter Theil and they’re not spending millions of dollars to improve your bottom line. While Ohio is gaining thousands of manufacturing…
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At a time when unemployment is sinking, the stock market is reaching record highs, and wages have increased 3%, there is a lot of signs out there of a booming…
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Remember when infrastructure week was just a meme, random rage tweets from one-term President Trump, photos of Jarred Kushner and Ivanka Trump (for reasons still unknown), and nothing actually getting…
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For 4 years, we saw a number of spectacles from the Trump administration as they hosted “infrastructure week.” In spite of Democratic support, Trump failed to deliver even during the…
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In 2016, Donald Trump promised that under his administration, “No one will gain more from tax cuts than low and middle-income Americans.” And in 2017, Congress passed the Trump-backed Tax…
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Republicans have managed to create and maintain the myth that their party is best for the American economy. The facts say something different. But the facts are not on the…
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