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The cost of extending the 2017 tax cuts enacted under President Donald Trump has expanded to $3.8 trillion over ten years, putting a massive price tag on what is likely to be a top issue in Washington next year, according to new estimates from Congress’s fiscal scorekeeper.The Congressional Budget Office’s estimate, released Wednesday, is double the $1.9 trillion cost of the original Trump tax cuts — a more expansive bill which also included permanent reductions in corporate taxes.The expiring portion of the tax cuts include reductions in individual tax rates and an expansion of the child tax credit. The new CBO cost estimate for renewing just that portion is up from a $3.5 trillion estimate made last year for extending the tax cuts, which are scheduled to sunset at the end of 2025.Swagel said personal income tax cuts don’t stimulate economic growth as much as the permanent business tax cuts.Swagel said that CBO raised its projection for this year’s budget deficit upward from the $1.6 trillion estimate issued in February, approaching $2 trillion. The recently enacted $95 billion Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan aid package, an FDIC bank rescue and increased federal student loan forgiveness all are worsening the deficit outlook for the year and decade.
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“The 2017 tax law raised my taxes due to the limitations on SALT and some other changes. Trump did this middle class tax…”
Legislation being introduced on Tuesday would put terrorist supporters, including those backing Hamas and those who call for violence against Jews, on the no-fly list, as anti-Israel campus protests engulf colleges across the country.Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., is introducing the No Flights for Terrorists Act, which would put individuals on the Transportation Security Administration’s no-fly list if they have encouraged violence against Jews, pledged support for terrorist groups, or have been disciplined by higher education institutions for such conduct.Terrorist organizations are designated as such by the secretary of state, and include Hamas, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Palestine Islamic Jihad and the Palestine Liberation Front. Currently, the no-fly list is a small subset of the terror watchlist that contains the information of known or suspected terrorists. The bill is being co-sponsored by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and comes after thousands of protesters have been arrested at colleges and universities in recent weeks, since the formation of an encampment at Columbia University on April 18.There have been a number of allegations of discrimination against Jewish students, with students saying they feel unsafe on campus and have been intimidated. One student group from Columbia Law reportedly declared that no Jew is "safe" or "free" until "Palestine" is free.
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At the 2024 AI Expo in Washington D.C. On May 7th 2024:Ret. Gen. Mark Milley says the US has committed so many war crimes over the years, it has no right to criticize Israel's devastation of GazaPalantir CEO Alex Karp chimes in: "The peace activists are actually the war activists, and we're the peace activists." Karp says of Gaza anti-genocide protesters, "You are an infection inside our society!"Gen. Milley repeats debunked Israeli propaganda about beheadings and sexual assault on Oct 7 to argue that the US would have done the same thing Israel is currently doing to Gaza if it had been attacked.Karp presents the Palestine solidarity campus protest movement as an existential threat to American empire: "If we lose the intellectual battle, we will not be able to deploy any army in the West, ever."
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The Colorado legislature on Friday adopted a first-in-the-nation reform last week to fix this. Senate Bill 72, which now awaits the signature of Governor Jared Polis to become law, would give people held in local jails a lot more opportunities to obtain and cast a ballot.It would require that sheriffs establish polling stations within local jails across Colorado each general election to operate for at least one six-hour period. It would also require every jail to designate a ballot drop-off location, for those who want to vote by mail.Colorado would be the first state to enact a mandate of this sort. Nevada, Massachusetts, and Washington state have recently passed initiatives meant to make jail voting easier, but none feature the central requirement of Colorado’s: turning local jails into in-person polling places.“It’s really a gold standard for what all states can aspire to,” Carmen López, an expert on jail voting for The Sentencing Project, a national research and advocacy organization, told Bolts. “Folks in Colorado who are in jails will have the voting experience that the rest of society in Colorado has. I think that’s really important.”
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Most criminals are in jail because they acted against social and moral norms, at times even doing physical harm to fello…
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Donald Trump is planning to send US assassination squads into Mexico to kill the leaders of drug cartels if he returns to the White House, according to a report.The former president, 77, has spoken publicly of his determination to tackle America’s fentanyl crisis by “waging war” on the criminal gangs who fuel it.But Mr Trump is yet to announce the full extent of his plans which, according to Rolling Stone, involve covertly deploying — with or without the Mexican government’s consent — special-operations units tasked with assassinating drug lords.Three Trump allies, cited by Rolling Stones, claim the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee has privately endorsed the missions – even though he has yet to decide on specific details such as how many US troops would be sent into Mexican territory.Rolling Stone reports conversations with his inner circle during which Mr Trump has insisted that the US military has “tougher killers than they do” and pondered why such assassinations have not been carried out before.The magazine’s sources, which include at least one Republican lawmaker, suggest Mr Trump argued that eliminating the “kingpins” of the most powerful cartels would seriously damage their operations and ability to supply drugs to America.
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Biden's weapons "pause" won't make a difference: "Despite the pause, the Israeli military has enough weapons supplied by…
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Again, why the aversion to conscripting women who are so desperately needed? A few thousand eligible convicts to fix a 2…
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