President Biden proposed a 16 percent increase in federal spending Friday on domestic priorities, including a hefty raise for education. CQ Roll Call's Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Biden administration on Friday released its wish list for discretionary spending for fiscal 2022. The proposal would boost non-defense spending by 16 percent and defense spending by 1.7 percent over current funding levels. CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman discuss the details of the plan, the winners and the losers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After a heated and contentious presidential election in 2020, voting rights are under attack. Georgia just passed a law that makes it harder for those who may be disenfranchised to cast their ballots. Other states are following suit. Mary C. Curtis speaks to Rashad Robinson, president of the social justice organization Color of Change, on what is at stake and what is being done to curtail the rollback of eligible voters to make their voices heard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
Rep. Mike Johnson is emblematic of the Republican Party of which he is now, in his third House term, and a leading member. He joined fellow Republicans in January in backing the former president's campaign to overturn state election results. More than 60 percent of voters in his northwest Louisiana district voted for Trump and Johnson views Trump as the party’s most important voice. He sits down this week with CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller, in for Jason Dick, who originally had this conversation f...
Frederik Mijnhardt, CEO of Secfi, joins Fintech Beat to explain why 80 percent of startup employees don’t exercise their stock options — and what that means for drivers of wealth in the innovation economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Biden administration says its $2 trillion infrastructure plan would boost the economy, fight climate change and address racial inequity. But Republicans are already pushing back, arguing that an increase in taxes to pay for the measure would slow down the economy. CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman discuss the ins and outs of the bill and the likelihood of it being a bipartisan effort versus Democrats going through the reconciliation process. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
President Donald Trump is ensconced at Mar-a-Lago and everyone — on all sides of the aisle — is curious to know what his influence will be on the GOP. We turn to Rep. Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who has risen fast in the party ranks since his 2016 election. He is a former lawyer, defends religious liberty and opposes same-sex marriage. He is vice chair of the House Republican Conference and joins CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller to discuss the future of the Republican Party. Learn more abo...
The president is on a spending spree and is asking for an additional $85 billion for surface transit. CQ Roll Call's Jessica Wehrman has details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan includes money to repair roads, bridges and beef up transit, but what it doesn't do is mention the gas tax. Not everyone is happy. CQ Jessica Wehrman has more on what's in the plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Unified control of the White House and Congress does not happen all that often. We are in one of those periods now, with President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats in the majority in the House and Senate. And they are pursuing policy like they know they know their time is limited. Political Theater host Jason Dick discusses why unified control is so rare and what are the political consequences with Molly E. Reynolds of the Brookings Institution and CQ Roll Call Politics Editor Herb Jackson. Le...
Tax season is upon us, so Fintech Beat wanted to take the opportunity to look back at an episode with one of the IRS’s top crypto cops to discuss how the agency views crypto and what it does with crypto seizures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Semiconductors are necessary for our economy and our national security and the pandemic has reemphasized a pre-existing issue in the U.S. supply. CQ Roll Call's John Donnelly reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Biden administration has reached out to key lawmakers and the criminal justice community for guidance on a slate of appointments to revive the sentencing commission, a move that also could influence congressional efforts to further change the nation’s criminal justice system. Todd Ruger reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Democrats are working to build support around a set of proposals, some legislative, that would order a series of structural changes to the State Department with the goal of increasing diversity. CQ Roll Call's Rachel Oswald reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Biden administration announced today that J&J, Moderna and Pfizer are on target to meet first quarter goals. And half of the states will open eligibility to all adults by mid April. CQ Roll Call's Sandhya Raman reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Secretary Tom Vilsack and a Black former Agriculture Department official he once forced out of her job testify on the department’s treatment of Black farmers. CQ Roll Call's Ellyn Ferguson reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, is spearheading a package of tax proposals designed to raise $1.5 trillion from multinational corporations and large estates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Senate will extend the paycheck protection program another two months. CQ Roll Call's Caitlin Reilly reports on what this means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Equal Rights Amendment known as ERA — yes that ERA — is back. The House passed a bill last week that would extend the deadline to ratify the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex. But is this five-decade-old amendment up to this moment? A moment that includes #MeToo, rising hate crimes against women of color and a pandemic that has battered women more than men? We turn to professor Julie Suk, who published “We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the E...
Military families stationed overseas say they are not getting vaccines. They are beginning to reach out to Congress for help. CQ Roll Call's Mark Satter reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week marks the 11th anniversary of Barack Obama’s signing of the Affordable Care Act, something Joe Biden, then the vice president, now the president, famously described as a “Big F-ing Deal.” He was right. It is one of the signature moments in American health care policy, along with the passage of Medicare and Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Political Theater host Jason Dick and CQ Roll Call Health Editor Rebecca Adams discuss t...
Nic Carter and Amy Luo explain how NFTs work, and what their meteoric rise means for the mainstreaming of blockchain technology and securities law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The House Republican Conference will allow its members to submit earmark requests, ending a decade-old prohibition. CQ Roll Call’s Jennifer Shutt and David Lerman discuss whether Senate Republicans will follow suit and what earmarks mean for the appropriations process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The EU is considering requiring citizens to get a vaccine passport to move freely around Europe. After more than a year of lockdowns, some may embrace the idea. The U.S. is also weighing its options. But could a vaccine passport be a vehicle for discrimination? CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller speaks with Bryan Del Monte, a former director at the Department of Defense and now president of The Aviation Agency, about what a passport could mean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...
Johnson & Johnson is under pressure to deliver its promised 20 million vaccine doses by the end of the month, as several state public health officials indicate the manufacturer is falling behind. Emily Kopp has more on the uncertainty ahead as demand for vaccines continues to overwhelm supplies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Native Americans have long had a contentious relationship with the Interior Department. Now one of their own is at the helm of it, Deb Haaland, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna. It was only in 2018 that the New Mexico Democrat made history as one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress. Now she is the first Native American to head a Cabinet department. Carla Fredericks, executive director of the Christensen Fund and an expert on indigenous people’s rights, discusses ...
Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff joins Fintech Beat to explain the operational mechanics and economics of roboadvising, and how the technology in the industry differs from the rest of the fintech ecosystem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We began this series last year to examine how the COVID 19 crisis has influenced public policy decisions. This week we reprised some of our podcasts to mark the one-year anniversary of the realization that the world was facing a pandemic. In this episode, we look at one of the industries hardest hit: Restaurants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We began this series last year to examine how the COVID 19 crisis has influenced public policy decisions. This week we are reprising some of our podcasts to mark the one-year anniversary of the realization that the world was facing a pandemic. In December, we looked at its toll on working moms. The $1.9 trillion COVID bill may provide a shadow of relief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's been one year since the global pandemic hit. Most Americans had no idea what was in store. The numbers of those impacted by COVID-19 are staggering. More than half a million American lives have been lost to the virus. And for people of color, the negative impact on their lives has been disproportionate — lost jobs, homes, health and lives. Reflecting back, the pandemic has shined a light on just how deep the incisions are from structural, racial inequities. We turn to to Shawn Fremstad of C...
