Democrats passed Biden’s first major piece of legislation a $1.9 billion COVID-19 stimulus package without any Republican votes in the House or Senate
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday clarified that President Biden’s proposed tax hike would apply to people who earn $200,000 per year if they are married to someone who makes the amount.
Psaki said at her daily press briefing that the proposed $400,000 threshold for tax increases applies to “families” rather than individuals.
The clarification significantly lowers the tax-hike threshold announced by Biden in an ABC News interview that aired Wednesday.
Biden’s interview statement appeared to indicate the cutoff would be $400,000 in individual income.
“Yes, anybody making more than $400,000 will see a small to a significant tax increase,” Biden told George Stephanopoulos.
Biden added, “If you make less than $400,000, you won’t see one single penny in additional federal tax.”
The president acknowledged that an effort to raise taxes is almost certain to be met with uniform opposition from Republicans in Congress.
“I may not get [Republican support], but I’ll get the Democratic votes for a tax increase. If we just took the tax rate back to what it was when [George W.] Bush was president — [when] the top rate paid 39.6 percent in federal taxes — that would raise $230 billion. Yet they’re complaining because I’m providing a tax credit for child care for the poor, from middle class?” Biden said.
Democrats hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives and also control of the evenly divided Senate because Vice President Kamala Harris breaks ties in Democrats’ favor.
No. 2 Senate Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois this week called for an end to the 60-vote threshold to proceed to votes on most bills, calling the procedural filibuster a “weapon of mass obstruction.”
Biden said in the ABC News interview he would like to reform the filibuster so that senators must speak at length on the Senate floor to stall bills.
Democrats passed Biden’s first major piece of legislation — a $1.9 billion COVID-19 stimulus package — without any Republican votes in the House or Senate by using a special budget reconciliation process that allowed for a bare majority in the Senate.
The woman whose coughing attack on a San Francisco Uber driver went viral this week was charged Wednesday with multiple felonies for the alleged crime.
Arna Kimiai, who refused to wear a mask while inside the vehicle, is facing one count of attempted robbery and one count of assault on a transportation driver.
Kimiai was also charged with two misdemeanor offenses: one count of battery on a transportation driver and one count of violating COVID-19 health protocols.
Kimiai faces up to 16 years in prison and $3,000 in in fines.
In the video, Kimiai can be seen deliberately coughing on driver Subhakar Khadka, while laughing and yelling racial slurs. At one point, she grabs the mask off Khadka’s face and attempts to grab his phone off the dashboard.
Police also noted that Kimiai sprayed what they believe to be pepper spray in Khadka’s car before leaving.
Miami Beach police are cracking down rowdy spring breakers after days of out-of-control parties in the seaside city that have included violence and drunken debauchery.
Mayor Dan Gelber said tens of thousands of visitors have overrun the Miami Beach Entertainment District — and the city will now step up police enforcement to curtail the behavior, according to WTVJ.
The city is reportedly bringing in officers from nearby Miami to help manage the situation.
“If you have 50 or a 100,000 people coming there and just half of 1 percent are rowdy or drunk or high to the point where they need to be controlled, it becomes a situation which is truly chaotic and unmanageable,” Gelber reportedly said in a virtual city commission meeting Wednesday.
About 150 partiers were arrested over the weekend, and a man was shot and killed on Monday, according to the South Florida NBC affiliate.
“It has felt at times like this city is under a level of siege simply from the volume of people that are coming,” Gelber said, according to the station.
The mayor ripped the reckless revelers, telling USA Today they “seem to have forgotten that there’s a pandemic.”
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