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Given the tax law’s unpopularity, it will be interesting to see what happens in the midterm congressional elections this November.
Cohen told a congressional committee that Trump’s efforts to secure the hotel deal had ended at the beginning of 2016.
As political moderates have been pushed out, policy gridlock has worsened, with presidential initiatives routinely blocked by congressional Republicans, even when such proposals were consistent with Republican ideas.
He would not need congressional approval to slam the brakes on the US economy.
In an effort to capture this voter rebellion, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas repeatedly bucked GOP congressional leaders.
While some wealthy donors are redirecting their money to congressional and state-level candidates, many others have jumped on board – and others will, too, to the degree that Trump seems able to beat Clinton.
A political newcomer who did not participate in El Salvador’s civil war, Funes, along with all the FMLN’s congressional candidates, was handpicked as presidential nominee, behind closed doors by the party’s Political Commission, where diehard Marxist cadres still roam unchecked.
The allegiance of the FMLN’s congressional caucus lies primarily with the party’s traditional structure and only accidentally with Funes.
To begin with, the FMLN is short of a congressional majority, which remains in the hands of its right-wing opponents, ARENA and its long-time allies, the small PCN.
He insisted repeatedly that the NSA’s Prism program, revealed by Snowden, had proceeded under congressional oversight, though members of Congress protested loudly in the wake of the revelations that they had never been briefed on the NSA’s clandestine data-mining operation.
But a plan to close numerous bases passed by an overwhelming majority when the congressional leadership finally agreed to present a single list of bases to be closed; the list could only be voted up or down, without any possibility of amendments.
Before releasing the current plan, congressional Republicans passed resolutions to reduce taxes by $1.5 trillion over the next decade.
If congressional Republicans and the Trump administration end up keeping the state and local tax deduction, their tax cuts will add $3.8 trillion to the public debt over the next decade.
Yet they are trying to enact their bill through the congressional budget reconciliation process, which requires any tax cuts that add to the deficit after ten years to be temporary.
Trump and congressional Republicans argue that tax cuts will boost economic growth, and thus revenues.
To get around this problem, Trump and the Republicans might decide to bend or manipulate congressional rules.
As I pointed out in recent Congressional testimony, poor education leads to poor job prospects, poor families, and back to poor education – if not with a detour through incarceration, which makes it even harder to break the cycle.
This outcome is far from guaranteed – not least because the proposed congressional legislation depends on what is, frankly, a neocolonial oversight board.
Disaffected congressional Republicans and unhappy corporations that have supported him on other matters may yet rein him in.
Because the CBO reports to the relevant congressional committees – those dealing with tax and budgets – both Republicans and Democrats watch its every move.
But the CBO, created in the 1970’s precisely to bring greater transparency and accountability to the rather byzantine congressional budget process, really is independent and run by professionals.
The relevant congressional committees also should agree to this exercise.
But Chinese FDI, especially in sensitive sectors like energy, does often trigger Congressional hearings, ad hoc resolutions, and calls for tougher CFIUS action.
In America, the Republican congressional caucus is just saying no: no to short-term deficit spending to put people to work, no to supporting the banking system, and no to increased government oversight or ownership of financial entities.
Making America’s Deficits Great AgainFRANKFURT – US President Donald Trump and congressional Republican allies have succeeded in passing their big tax legislation.
The official report of a congressional commission of inquiry, released in 1993, found that it was in fact the joint deposit insurance that had prompted the banks to take these gambles.
The proposed budget assumes that non-defense “discretionary” spending (which requires congressional approval, unlike so-called “mandatory” spending like Social Security pension benefits, which continues to grow unless Congress changes the benefits) will rise by a total of only 5% in the decade 2010-2020, implying a decline in real terms and no scope for new programs.
But, with a mid-term congressional election in November, there is strong opposition to such an increase, both in Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration.
That will require congressional action and additional revenues.
Unfortunately, as the financial crisis of 2008 demonstrated, it would have been better if Congressional committees had pressed him to communicate more clearly.
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