Hedge funder Bessent gets Trump blessing for Treasury
Bessent, who jumped on the Trump train back in 2016, donated at least $1 million in support of Trump during the 2024 campaign cycle, according to OpenSecrets.org.
Search Roll Call
Search the Roll Call archive by keyword, date, Congress, section, or tags.
87 results for "1"
White House asks for nearly $100B disaster relief package
While the stopgap funding law enacted in September provided a $20.3 billion boost to FEMA’s disaster relief fund, the agency has now burned through $17.6 billion since the money became available Oct.1,
Tax veterans see protracted standoff over expiring breaks
with ideological differences, lawmakers will likely have to contend with changes in leadership and other pressing deadlines early in the next Congress, including the return to the debt ceiling on Jan. 1.
Congressional estimators find sharply lower revenue take from Harris tax plans
do with less robust buyback activity in response to the higher tax — similar to what occurred in 2023, when S&P 500 companies’ buybacks dropped by nearly 14 percent in the first year after the current 1
China hawks prep tech investment screening measure
An outbound investment notification and screening measure is "probably our No. 1 priority right now," Rep.
Johnson’s stopgap funds plan appears headed for defeat in House
In other words, it wouldn’t affect the money already set to flow on Oct. 1, which would be subject to the usual "apportionment" rules.
Trump floats US sovereign wealth fund as part of economic pitch
"Communism is the past, freedom is the future, and it is time to send comrade Kamala Harris back home to California, where crime is rampant and fleeing is the No. 1 occupation," he said.
Fact-checking Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention
In 2018, numerous Democrats repeated the talking point that 83 percent of the tax cuts in the TCJA went to the wealthiest 1 percent.
Walz’s fiscal record veered from moderate to progressive champion
The 2023 Minnesota law included about $1 billion in tax increases to the wealthy and corporations, as well as smaller boosts to sales taxes to fund roads, transit and housing initiatives.
FactCheck updates how the US has performed under Biden
But compared with the highest level during Trump’s time in office — which was in January 2019 — manufacturing jobs are up only 122,000, or just under 1 percent.
Senators seek answers on dwindling fund for crime victims
Penalties vs. forfeitures What’s more, senators said, the data show that more than $1 billion in fines and penalties from corporate guilty plea agreements never made its way into the Crime Victims Fund
Fact-checking Day 4 of the Republican National Convention
The Tax Policy Center noted, "The top 1 percent, with at least roughly $1 million in income, would pay an average of $300,000 more than under current law, dropping their after-tax incomes by 14 percent
Fact-checking Day 1 of the Republican National Convention
Jason Furman, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama and now a Harvard University professor, told us in the summer of 2022 that the ARP had contributed 1 to 4 percentage points to inflation
Financial Services spending bill a big test for slim GOP margin
Republicans have offered dozens of amendments, including some that would cut the salaries of top officials to $1, such as those of Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler, Consumer Financial
Treasury seeks tighter rules on US investment in China tech
The Treasury Department is considering setting the general computing power threshold at 1 septillion computational operations, or higher, for training of advanced models, the proposal says.
Split screen: Biden heads to G7 summit as Trump returns to Capitol Hill
Before Biden and Zelenskyy face reporters around 1:30 p.m.
Legal opinion gives Treasury leeway ahead of debt limit fight
At that time, Treasury and Congress were again bumping up against the debt limit, which lawmakers had last suspended in 2019, until Aug. 1, 2021.
EV tax credit rules would clarify restrictions on foreign-made batteries
The first deadline for automakers begins on Jan. 1, when vehicles containing any battery components that are manufactured by a foreign entity of concern will not receive the tax credit.
House GOP pulls Financial Services bill from the floor
Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., to reduce White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s salary to $1.
Shutdowns of the past were ‘emotional,’ ‘terrible’ for Hill staffers
With lots of action this week but little real movement to fund the government before Oct. 1, staffers in both parties say they’re starting to worry — and to wonder what it might mean for them.