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Dark money group running attack ads in Ohio against Sherrod Brown with almost no public disclosures

BY: - September 13, 2023

About a week ago, an ad began airing that criticizes U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, over U.S. immigration policy. The ad itself is about what you’d expect. The narrator crams as many policy failure claims as possible into 30 seconds over stock footage of tent cities and migrant caravans. Although the ad places blame on […]

IRS slated to hire thousands of workers, boost audits of wealthy taxpayers

BY: - April 7, 2023

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday detailed its plan to spend $80 billion in additional funding that Democrats approved last year as part of their climate change and health care package. The plan says the agency will boost tax enforcement by increasing its “focus on segments of taxpayers with complex issues and complex […]

New U.S. House weaponization panel to probe FBI, IRS, ATF

BY: - February 10, 2023

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats on Thursday urged the GOP lawmakers running the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to work with them on genuine oversight investigations that weren’t political or focused on leveling grievances. Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin said during the panel’s first hearing that the subcommittee “could conceivably […]

U.S. House GOP outlines agenda in bid for control in the midterms

BY: - September 27, 2022

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans gathered inside a warehouse in Southwestern Pennsylvania last week to outline the legislation they’d try to enact if voters give them back control of that chamber following the November midterm elections. Speaking from an HVAC factory in Monongahela, about an hour south of Pittsburgh, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said […]

GOP claims to the contrary, Sen. Brown says extra IRS funds will make the rich pay up

BY: - September 6, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act signed last month by President Joe Biden does some things that poll well with Americans. It attempts to lower the cost of prescription drugs for seniors, it extends health care subsidies for lower-income people and it’s a significant attempt to combat climate change. So in criticizing the bill, many Republicans have […]

U.S. House Democrats send sweeping climate, health and tax legislation to Biden

BY: - August 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Friday cleared Democrats’ long-sought climate, health care and tax package, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature. The roughly $750 billion measure is much smaller than the $2 trillion reconciliation package the House originally sent to the Senate in November. The final product left out dozens of […]

How the Trump tax law created a loophole that lets top executives net millions

BY: - August 24, 2021

By Robert Faturechi and Justin Elliott, Pro Publica This story was originally published by ProPublica. In the months after President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December 2017, some tax professionals grew giddy as they discovered opportunities for their clients inside a law that already slashed rates for corporations and wealthy […]