Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a key Democratic vote, came out Wednesday against the budget reconciliation process, which would allow Democrats to push the bill through the Senate with just a 51-vote majority.
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Biden names ‘jobs Cabinet’ to sell infrastructure plan as Republicans resist
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell vows to fight the president’s $2.3 trillion proposal ‘every step of the way.’
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Analysis: Bumpy road ahead for Biden’s infrastructure plan
Even before the president delivered his opening speech on the plan, Republicans had latched on to Reagan-era labeling, dismissing the package as tax-and-spend liberalism.
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Here’s a closer look at Biden’s infrastructure and tax proposals
Where is the money going and where is it coming from?
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Biden rolls out $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan ‘to win the future’
Funding would come from a hike on corporate taxes that would aim to raise the needed money over 15 years and later reduce the deficit.
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Biden wants infrastructure package approved over summer
The plan includes investments in broadband, electric vehicle charging stations and clean energy.
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Proposal to increase Maine gas tax in summer going nowhere fast
Lawmakers will consider other measures to address the chronic underfunding of Maine’s highway system.
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Work begins April 30 on Rumford Island infrastructure project
Rumford Town Manager Linda-Jean Briggs, right, updates members of the Rumford Historical Society on this year’s infrastructure project on The Island downtown. Looking on are historical society members Druscilla and Dennis Breton. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times) Congress Street in Rumford and several other streets on The Island downtown will undergo infrastructure construction beginning April 30. […]
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LePage administration proposes annual fee on electric, hybrid cars
The LePage administration is proposing to make it more expensive to own a hybrid or electric vehicle in Maine. The Maine Department of Transportation wants to impose an annual registration fee on the vehicles, $150 for gas-electric hybrid cars and $250 for all-electric models. An extra fee is needed to make hybrid and all-electric owners […]
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Susan Collins wants to boost funding where Donald Trump aims to cut
Health care isn’t the only area where U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is defying President Donald Trump. In her role as chair of an appropriations subcommittee devoted to transportation, housing and urban development, the Maine Republican is pushing through a budget plan for transportation and housing that calls for spending more than $8 billion above what […]