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Republicans ready to defeat tax bill to help Trump

February 1, 2024

ROBERT B. HUBBELL

A tax bill with bipartisan support passed in the House on a 357 to 70 to vote. The bill, if approved by the Senate, would be a significant achievement because it expands the amount of the child tax credit available to lower-income families—a key Biden objective. In exchange, the bill would maintain business tax deductions scheduled to expire. The details are here: WaPo, House votes to expand child tax credit, beef up corporate tax breaks. (Accessible to all.)

The fact that the bill made it through the fractious House should be a good sign of likely passage in the Senate. Sadly, it is not. Why? Because Senate Republicans don’t want to give President Biden a “win” in an election year. Sound familiar? See USA Today, GOP senator doesn’t want to pass a tax bill because it could make Biden ‘look good’.

Per USA Today, Senator Grassley said,

Passing a tax bill that makes the president look good — mailing out checks before the election — means he could be re-elected, and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax cuts.

Not to be outdone, Senator Mitt Romney said he would oppose the bill because it would turn into “another entitlement program which is massively expensive.”

Grassley’s comment is telling on many levels. First, it contains the naked admission that Republicans are no longer working to serve the American people but are, instead, concerned only with serving their overlord, Donald Trump.

Moreover, Grassley is wrong in asserting that the bill will “send checks” to Americans in an election year. The child tax credit is just that—a tax credit offsets taxes owed. If a taxpayer owes no tax, then the tax credit can generate a refund (up to $1,600).

Worse, Grassley opposes the bill in the hope that Trump will be able to extend his 2017 tax cuts for millionaires—which added $3.5 trillion to the deficit (through 2033). Extending those tax cuts would increase the deficit even more.

To increase the likelihood of granting windfall tax cuts to the nation’s top income earners in another Trump administration, Senators Grassley and Romney want to deprive tax benefits to the working poor—benefits that Romney derisively calls “entitlements.”

Romney, a former hedge fund manager, has no problem with the “carried interest deduction” for hedge fund managers, which generates billions in tax deductions for the nation’s wealthiest billionaires. In Romney’s view, the carried interest deduction isn’t an “entitlement” because billionaires and millionaires should get to keep their money free of taxes because they are “special.”

We once again stand at the precipice of legislative action that will benefit the American people—but Republicans oppose it because doing so is contrary to Donald Trump's partisan interests. Don’t believe me? Just ask Senator Chuck Grassley.

I remember the two of them (Grassley and Diane) looking like they’d just been told something traumatic.  This was 2017.  Four full years ago.  The investigations have been going on behind all the madness, all the “quiet professionals” doing their jobs while the nation was thrown into chaos. 

That was always the reason for Trump’s impeachment. Dems knew Trump had seen all the classified information and financial records.

The U.S. Treasury Department has started turning over confidential banking records related to Hunter Biden in response to requests from Senate investigative committees.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson asked the treasury in November for “suspicious activity reports,” banking alerts involving money…

Hey ya’ll, you need to stop picking on Iowa and its caucus system. See, you have Grassley all worked up now. As a constituent, I received this in an email from him yesterday:

I think what’s different about the Iowa caucuses is it empowers everyday Americans, as opposed to the way so many elections are conducted in this country through the force of being able to raise money, particularly from powerful interest groups that are always ready to help and the billionaires that can spend their own money. So I think that you raise the question about both the Republicans and the Democrats at the national level complaining about it, you can say this is a Democrat problem in Iowa, but you can also say that Republicans in Iowa and Democrats in Iowa are arm-in-arm defending our first in the nation position

I’m working on an email to Chuck asking him why (if so many elections are basically “bought” by so much money) he hasn’t sponsored any legislation to change it so that EVERY American is EMPOWERED in EVERY Election ??

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is not exactly a fan of Hillary Clinton. It was Grassley, for example, who launched the false accusation that then-FBI Directory James Comey had decided to exonerate Clinton before completing the FBI investigation.

On Friday, Grassley’s office released the results of its years-long investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server. The investigation concluded that classified information did, in fact, make its way onto Clinton’s unclassified server, which violated security protocols:

“The State Department investigation found that 38 current or former employees were responsible for 91 separate violations of security protocols involving Clinton’s server. Those 38 people were not identified.”

“The State Department found an additional 497 violations for which no individual was found responsible.”

“The investigation did find that Clinton’s use of a private server increased the risk of hacking.” (Although, as the FBI previously found, no actual hacking ever occurred.)

That, however, is the worst Grassley could come up with to smear Clinton.

“None of the emails at issue were marked as classified, according to the investigation.”

“The State Department probe found ‘no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.’”

“While there were some instances of classified information being inappropriately introduced into an unclassified system in furtherance of expedience, by and large, the individuals interviewed were aware of security policies and did their best to implement them in their operations.”

Let The Women Testify Before The Committee Votes!

... and Fuck You Mitch McConnell!