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Biden proposes taxes on the rich to cover Medicare expenses

US President Joe Biden is expected to unveil his proposed budget on Thursday as he prepares for likely re-election bid.

Al Jazeera · Mar 7, 2023

Congress rejects ESG in retirement plans

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Ballotpedia · Mar 7, 2023

Biden previews Medicare drug price, tax increase proposals

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he’ll propose increasing taxes on some upper-income business owners and expanding prescription drug cost controls enacted in last year’s budget reconciliation package as a means of lowering federal deficits and extending Medicare’s solvency.

Tribune News Service · Mar 7, 2023

Larry Hogan won't run for president, but has some advice for the Republicans who do

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced over the weekend he will not run for president in 2024, but hopes to shape the future of the GOP. He talks to NPR about what he wants to see from his party.

WEKU · Mar 7, 2023

GOP's genocidal trolling: not just jokes

Republicans are competing for attention by ratcheting up anti-LGBTQ speech. The inevitable result is violence

Salon · Mar 7, 2023

Commentary: House Republicans now have a way to shut down programs they don’t like. Will they use it?

The slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives recently voted to give itself a streamlined way to fire civil servants and shut down federal programs it doesn’t like — outside the standard process of review and debate.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 7, 2023

Medicaid has a target on its back

Some House GOP members told Axios that Medicaid changes could be on the table.

Axios · Mar 7, 2023

Editorial: No room for Larry Hogan in the GOP personality cult

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s Sunday announcement that he will not seek the Republican Party nomination for president in 2024 likely came as no surprise to anyone who has been following national politics. Sure, there was a time when a governor who achieved extraordinary popularity leading a state that leaned…

Tribune News Service · Mar 7, 2023

Nikki Haley's diet-MAGA problem

The race politics of the GOP have only become rawer and more aggressive with each election

Salon · Mar 7, 2023

Trudy Rubin: Trump and DeSantis are giving Putin reason to believe he can win in Ukraine

As Russia's war on Ukraine enters its second year, Vladimir Putin's best hope for "victory" may lie with the two leading GOP candidates for president.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Mar 7, 2023