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Kevin McCarthy

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
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
Business Taxes: TaxVox
Looking for a case study of our hyper-partisan politics? No need to search any further than your local gas pump. The ongoing debate in Washington...
July 6, 2022Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox
About that possible government shutdown… The Senate passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 11. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner will meet with President Obama “soon” for budget negotiations , and the House is on
September 30, 2015Renu Zaretsky
: TaxVox
Paul Ryan and Orrin Hatch want businesses to share ideas on tax treatment of “pass-throughs.” As owners of pass-through businesses such as partnerships and sole proprietorships, millions of business owners pay their firms’ income taxes through the individual code. Both the GOP and the White House
April 14, 2015Renu Zaretsky
Business Taxes: TaxVox
In the run-up to next week’s congressional elections, Republicans are saying that if they win control of the Senate, they will try to pass business tax reform as part of an ambitious “we can get things done" agenda. Is there any possibility that a GOP-controlled Congress could rewrite the business
October 28, 2014Howard Gleckman