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The IRS will require taxpayers to take selfies to see their online accounts. Company founder Blake Hall says it's needed to stop fraud.

Musk is escalating his feud with Democrats seeking to aggressively tax the wealthiest Americans. He reportedly paid no income tax in 2018.

Sen. Joe Manchin is signaling anew that he’s still not ready to back his party’s $2 trillion social and environment legislation as party leaders scramble for a pathway to advance the long-stalled package — preferably by Christmas.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, joined calls for the Department of Homeland Security to provide information about a secretive unit that was investigating journalists, elected officials and other Americans.

The Associated Press is seeking answers from the Department of Homeland Security on its use of sensitive government databases for tracking international terrorists to investigate as many as 20 American journalists, including an acclaimed AP reporter.

The head of a Senate panel that oversees Medicare says the Biden administration should cut back a hefty premium increase soon to hit millions of enrollees.

The head of a Senate panel that oversees Medicare says the Biden administration should use its legal authority to cut back a hefty premium increase soon hitting millions of enrollees, as a growing number of Democratic lawmakers call for action amid worries over rising inflation. Last month, Medicare announced one of the largest increases ever in its “Part B” monthly premium for outpatient care, nearly $22, from $148.50 currently to $170.10 starting in January. The agency attributed roughly half the hike, about $11 a month, to the need for a contingency fund to cover Aduhelm, a new $56,000 Alzheimer's drug from Biogen whose benefits have been widely questioned. “Rather than assessing the current $21.60 per month ... premium increase in full, I urge you to reduce the amount,” Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wrote health secretary Xavier Becerra.

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is demanding that the Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog turn over its investigation into employees involved in a leak investigation of a reporter and a congressional staffer.

A new $56,000-a-year Alzheimer’s medication that’s leading to one of the biggest increases ever in Medicare premiums is highlighting the limitations of President Joe Biden’s strategy for curbing prescription drug costs.

Democrats have finally driven President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion package of family services, health care and climate initiatives through the House.

Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in President Joe Biden's social agenda bill.

The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of Charles “Chuck” Sams III as National Park Service director, which will make him the first Native American to lead the agency that oversees more than 131,000 square miles of parks and other landmarks.

The 80-year-old Vermont senator wrote, "We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share." Musk retorted, "I keep forgetting that you're still alive."

Progressives are pushing for a wealth tax targeted at the ultra rich like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. However, as it turns out, taxing the richest people in the world is easier said than done.

Tesla shares are falling after Elon Musk proposed to sell 10% of his shares in the company if his Twitter followers agreed.

Sen. Ron Wyden said a Twitter poll should not decide if "the world's wealthiest man pays any taxes at all." Musk focused on his profile picture.

The pharmaceutical industry has employed three lobbyists for every member of Congress this year.

Democrats say they have sealed a deal to lower pharmaceutical drug costs for most older Americans as part of President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.75 trillion domestic proposal.

Signatory Morris Pearl said there's a fear rich people might "go on strike" if taxes go up, but the millionaires know it's in their best interest.

Some billionaires like Elon Musk and John Catsimatidis are firing back over the Congress' 'billionaire tax' plan.

Some billionaires like Elon Musk and John Catsimatidis are firing back over the Congress' 'billionaire tax' plan.

Some billionaires like Elon Musk and John Catsimatidis are firing back over the Congress' 'billionaire tax' plan.

Elon Musk isn’t happy.

Top Democrats say a deal is within reach on President Joe Biden's big domestic bill.

President Joe Biden says he has reached a “historic” framework with Democrats in Congress on his sweeping, though scaled-back domestic policy plan.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has unveiled a plan to tax billionaires' unrealized capital gains. However, if the proposal survives, it may face legal challenges.

Senate Democrats' proposed billionaires income tax, or BIT, would effectively change how capital gains are taxed for the richest American households.

Democrats are targeting 700 or so billionaires and economist Gabriel Zucman has calculated what the US - and the world's - richest would pay.

About 700 Americans could face a new wealth tax under a Democratic proposal. Here's how it could work.

Democrats also proposed a 15% minimum tax on companies reporting more than $1 billion in profits each year.

Democrats say the tax on billionaire assets would help pay for President Biden's social spending bill.

Democrats also proposed a 15% minimum tax on companies reporting more than $1 billion in profits each year.

New details of a Democratic plan to enact a 15% minimum corporate tax on declared income of large corporations were released Tuesday by three senators.

The Democrats’ idea for a new billionaires’ tax to help pay for President Joe Biden’s social services and climate change plan is quickly running into criticism.

President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill is now half its original size and being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant lawmakers.

To help pay for his big economic and social agenda, President Joe Biden is looking to go where the big money is and that's billionaires.

Democrats are floating a "billionaires' tax" to fund their social spending bill that would include measures like affordable child care and paid leave.

President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress have edged close to a deal on their big package of social services and climate change strategies.

The White House and Democrats are hurriedly reworking key aspects of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion domestic policy plan.

A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats have edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation.

The White House is floating new plans for ways to pay for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion proposal for expanding social services and tackling climate change.

The president floated a briefer extension of child tax credits, but some senior Democrats are calling it a "missed opportunity" to support families.

Scaling back his big government-overhaul plans, President Joe Biden has described a more-limited vision to Democratic lawmakers.

Democrats under pressure from the GOP and the banking industry have agreed to raise the cap to $10,000 on a proposal that all bank transactions of more than $600 be reported to the IRS.

It’s Washington's enduring question: What does Joe Manchin want.

Negotiating Medicare drug prices is a linchpin of President Joe Biden's ambitious health care agenda.

Some 12 million Americans with a median income of $125,000 could be affected by the proposed change to the tax code, ICI CEO Eric Pan warns.

As President Joe Biden visited one disaster site after another this summer he declared climate change “everybody’s crisis.”.

Top congressional Democrats say they and the White House have agreed to a framework of tax options to pay for their emerging $3.5 trillion social and environment bill.

Medicare says families and patients have a new online tool to compare COVID-19 vaccination rates among nursing homes.

A Democratic proposal to close a key tax loophole for exchange-traded funds is "regressive" and likely won't pass, says ETF Trends' Dave Nadig.

Congressional Democrats face a daunting assignment.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden has proposed a new tax on exchange-traded funds' in-kind transactions.

A proposal from House Dems would repeal Roth conversions in individual retirement accounts and 401(k)-type plans for those making more than $400,000 a year.

Officials in some urban areas are raising concerns about a federal rule limiting how federal coronavirus relief money can be spent on high-speed internet.

Hospitals in Iowa’s second-largest city are limiting elective procedures because of increased numbers of patients driven partly by a surge in COVID-19 admissions.

Democrats are weighing proposals to fund their $3.5 trillion budget plan, including mark-to-market levies on certain investments, taxing growth every year.

President Joe Biden is refocusing on his $3.5 trillion “build back better” agenda.

Labor Day 2021 represents a perilous crossroads for millions of Americans.

Congressional Democrats are weighing a raft of taxes that would target CEO pay and big U.S. companies that buy back shares.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said in a letter that President Joe Biden wants Congress to include unemployment reform in the budget reconciliation process.

Senior Democratic senators are introducing legislation that responds to the ravages of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

Two competing crypto tax amendments to the Senate's infrastructure bill has provoked concern within the crypto community.

The White House is taking sides in the crypto amendment battle roiling Congress.

Sens. Ron Wyden, Pat Toomey and Cynthia Lummis filed an amendment to clarify crypto language in the Senate's infrastructure bill.

Democrats in Congress are pushing for a federal jobs program that would tackle climate, land use, infrastructure, and more. Here's why it's so urgent.

Data for the 2019 tax year shows that 497 taxpayers have $25 million or more in aggregate IRA balances. Some lawmakers hope to curb use of those tax shelters.

Senators negotiating two colossal bills that would deliver more than $4 trillion for infrastructure, health care, environment and other initiatives keep insisting both bills will be fully paid for.

When a religious publication used smartphone app data to deduce the sexual orientation of a high-ranking Roman Catholic official, it exposed a problem that goes far beyond a debate over church doctrine and priestly celibacy.

Republicans previously supported raising the debt ceiling under President Trump. Now they're opposing it under Biden.

U.S. will likely run out of cash to pay its bills in October or November if Congress doesn't act, Congressional Budget Office report says.

Senate Democrats are accusing Republicans of a cynical ploy that would damage the government’s credit rating and the economy.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hopes to overhaul the pass-through business tax break, phasing out those making over $400,000 and expanding which businesses qualify.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pressuring lawmakers to reach agreement by next week on a pair of massive domestic spending measures.

Democrats push for payments to extend beyond 2021 as first checks are set to hit bank accounts July 15

The Senate’s top Democrat is backing a bill that would strike down a longstanding federal marijuana prohibition.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has made cannabis reform a top priority, but his plan faces a difficult political path.

Climate activists and their Democratic allies in Congress are pressing with renewed urgency for huge investments to slow global warming after a bipartisan infrastructure plan cut out some of President Joe Biden’s key climate initiatives.

The Social Security Administration sends annual statements to a limited number of people. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling for that to change.

Biden reached a deal with a group of 10 bipartisan senators on infrastructure. Elements from his original plan, like eldercare, are missing.

"There ain't no infrastructure bill without the reconciliation bill," Nancy Pelosi said. Weeks ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders prepared a $6 trillion one.

If the federal government can't pay back its debtors in time by raising the debt ceiling, it could put Americans' jobs and savings in jeopardy

Six decades after University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns and was treated with ridicule, he is seen as someone whose ideas could save the U.S. West’s forests and ease wildfire dangers.

The White House is making clear that President Joe Biden is opposed to letting the federal gasoline tax rise at the rate of inflation to help pay for an infrastructure package that a bipartisan group of 21 senators is trying to craft.

Democratic leaders are laying the groundwork for a go-it-alone approach on President Joe Biden's big jobs and families infrastructure plan even as the White House continues negotiating with Republicans on a scaled-back $1 trillion proposal.

The White House plans to give the bipartisan infrastructure negotiations another week to 10 days before assessing next steps, which could include pursuing a Democrats-only approach to pass President Joe Biden's sweeping jobs and families investment plans. House Democrats were told about the administration's latest thinking during a closed session Tuesday. White House counselor Steve Ricchetti relayed the timeline to lawmakers as talks have been underway with a group of 10 senators devising a nearly $1 trillion proposal.

"On a big infrastructure bill, to pass on climate altogether? No way," one top Democrat told Insider.

The cuts in Mississippi, Missouri, Alaska, and Iowa yanks aid from 340,000 workers. More GOP states are following suit in the next two months.

Democrats are committed to passing legislation this year to curb prescription drug prices.

President Joe Biden might have persuaded some of the world’s largest economies to hike taxes on corporations.

A new report says the $56,000 Alzheimer’s drug approved this week would raise Medicare premiums broadly.

Three Democratic members of Congress are asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the foster care experience of Ma'Khia Bryant that preceded the 16-year-old's fatal police shooting in Ohio. U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, along with U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, penned a letter last week on behalf of Bryant's parents, asking the federal agency to look into the teen's experience through the foster care system.

The Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick to run U.S. health insurance programs, putting in place a key player who’ll carry out his strategy for expanding affordable coverage and reining in prescription drug costs.

Police responding to a person gripped by a mental health or drug crisis can lead to tragic results.

Elizabeth Furse, who represented northwestern Oregon in Congress for three terms in the 1990s, has died.

The sprawling hacking campaign came to be known as SolarWinds, for the company whose software update was seeded by Russian intelligence agents with malware to penetrate government and private networks.

The IRS says it expects to meet the July 1 deadline under the new pandemic relief law for starting a groundbreaking tax program aimed at reducing child poverty.

President Joe Biden is promoting his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan directly to Americans with an appeal to think big.

Republicans raised long-running conservative grievances, unproven, that the platforms are biased against conservative viewpoints and censor material based on political or religious viewpoints. There is increasing support in Congress for legislation to rein in Big Tech companies. The tech CEOs defended the legal shield under Section 230, saying it has helped make the internet the forum of free expression that it is today. Trump enjoyed special treatment on Facebook and Twitter until January, despite spreading misinformation, pushing false claims of voting fraud, and promulgating hate. The tech blog Gizmodo eventually revealed the device was a “BlockClock” that shows the latest prices of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Nursing homes have to publicly disclose their vaccination rates for flu and pneumonia, but theres no similar mandate for COVID-19 shots. Nursing homes have been required since last May to regularly report cases and deaths among residents and staff to the government. Nursing homes are again allowing loved ones to visit, and hugs are included. The main nursing home industry trade group, the American Health Care Association, says it supports disclosure of vaccination data. Wyden and Crapo said current government policy that encourages nursing homes to voluntarily report vaccination data to the government has only led to “limited participation by the industry.”The government should require nursing homes to break down vaccination data by race and ethnicity, given disparities in vaccine acceptance.