This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, cast doubt Wednesday on passing a bipartisan tax bill, saying it could make President Joe Biden “look good” and improve Democrats’ chances of holding the White House in the 2024 election.
Grassley said re-electing Biden could hurt Republican hopes of extending Trump-era tax cuts.
A 2021 child tax credit included monthly checks for qualifying parents, but they are not in the newly negotiated bill.
The Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee said in a statement last week that under the legislation, the Biden administration would be “explicitly prohibited” from “manipulating the bill’s tax relief in an attempt to send politically timed refund checks.”
The spokesperson added that Grassley “looks forward to providing input” when a Finance Committee markup is scheduled.
Grassley made the comments ahead of an expected House vote to pass the bill.
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I hope someone on the Biden team is collecting all these clips of Republicans saying the quiet part out loud, that they would rather sabotage Biden than help Americans, so they can be placed in campaign ads later this year.
Wow, you know these politicians are fucked when they refuse to make life better for people simply because it would boost the reputation of someone they are against. Talk about skewed priorities.
Politicians aren’t good at understanding that they should be there to do the right thing regardless of consequences anymore.
Even in my home country they haven’t done a true “screw the consequences, I’m doing what’s right” since they introduced gun control in 1996.
What a fucked up world we live in.
Have you not seen the lady who is mad because the president is not hurting the right people?
Needs to be front and center in every campaign ad in every red state.
Why don’t we have a border solution?
Donald Trump - “It’s not going to happen, and I’ll fight it all the way.”
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson - “Dead on arrival.”
Why don’t we have a tax bill?
89 year old Republican Senator Chuck Grassley - “Passing a tax bill that makes the president look good — mailing out checks before the election — means he could be re-elected, and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax cuts.”
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Doesn’t see c/theonion
Fuck.
