Weekly Wrap

April 9, 2021

This Week: At A Glance

This week, Biden's $2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan is drumming up serious concern from GOP leaders and businesses across America. 

The proposed plan is so large that it will require 15 years of higher taxes on corporations to pay for eight years of spending. At its core, the plan calls for a $620 billion investment in transportation infrastructure. However, it climbs to $3 trillion with the inclusion of broad policy priorities.

"This plan is not about rebuilding America’s backbone. Less than 6% of this massive proposal goes to roads and bridges, it would spend more money just on electric cars than on America’s roads, bridges, ports, airports and waterways combined." - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Corporations don’t end up paying corporate taxes in the way most people might think. Ryan Young, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the Washington Examiner that consumers will pay for it through higher prices. Read more here. 

How our women are fighting back! Rep. Nancy Mace (SC-01) and Rep. Michelle Steel (CA-48) took to Twitter this week to push back on the President's extreme infrastructure plan. 

Rep. Malliotakis sits down with Vice News. In an exclusive interview, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) discussed her efforts to solve problems by finding common sense solutions and how she’s pushing back against the Left’s radical policies. Watch below.

In The News

Axios: New York to offer COVID relief payments up to $15,600 for undocumented workers. New York will offer one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who lost work due to COVID-19, the state legislature announced this week.

Wall Street Journal: Biden Outlines New Gun-Control Measures Including on ‘Ghost Guns,’ Arm Braces.  President Biden outlined a series of actions he said would help curb gun violence, as the White House seeks new ways to work around congressional Republicans who have objected to most Democratic gun proposals.

Fox News: MS-13 gang member caught entering US illegally, Border Patrol announces. U.S. Border Patrol agents in California arrested an alleged MS-13 gang member early Wednesday morning after he had illegally crossed the border into the United States, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced.

WKTV: Tenney introduces federal bill to allow caregivers access to nursing ome residents in health emergencies.  Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, R-22, was in New Hartford Wednesday to introduce the federal Essential Caregivers Act, which would allow designated family members to have contact with nursing home residents during a pandemic or other health crisis.

The Hill: Business group's study says corporate tax hike would cost 1M jobs. One million jobs would be lost in the first two years if the corporate tax rate increased to 28 percent and other policies went into effect, according to a new study from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

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