Tax Policy Center

Joe Biden

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Last night’s State of the Union address probably was President Biden’s last first-term speech to Congress. But it also was his first big-stage re-election campaign...
March 8, 2024Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
Former President Trump is blasting GOP primary rival Nikki Haley for wanting to restore Social Security solvency by increasing the age when today’s young workers...
January 22, 2024Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Want to know why the budget deficit is enormous and growing? One reason is that when one political party in Congress proposes new tax cuts...
December 4, 2023Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox
It appears that the green energy tax breaks included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are more popular among businesses than Congress imagined when...
July 14, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Now that Congress has passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023 , it isn’t too soon to start thinking about the mess lawmakers have...
June 7, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden reached an agreement over the weekend to limit spending for a small fraction of the federal...
May 31, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
If the country avoids breaching the debt limit in the next few months , you may not have Wall Street volatility to thank. Or even...
May 9, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
House Republicans have, at least temporarily, redefined what they mean by a tax increase. By doing so, they have turned their backs on their decades-old...
May 2, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
You can see where this is going. As the US gets ever closer to hitting its borrowing limit sometime this summer, Congress is stumbling towards...
April 27, 2023Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The revenue provisions of President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget would lower after-tax incomes by an average of about $2,300 next year, according to a...
March 23, 2023Howard Gleckman