Tag: Taxes

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with President Trump after the Bastille Day military parade. Trump said Macron is "a great guy smart, strong, loves holding my hand."

Energy and Environment

Trump conflates Macron suspending fuel tax with ‘flawed’ Paris climate agreement

Daniel Chaitin · December 4, 2018 11:29 pm

A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm, in Panama City.

Justice Department charges four in first Panama Papers case

Kelly Cohen · December 4, 2018 11:10 pm

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., holds a news conference to introduce the "Secure America from Russian Interference Act."

Hoyer open to Trump infrastructure plan, if it doesn’t increase the deficit

Colin Wilhelm · December 4, 2018 10:19 pm

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin talks with reporters about trade negotiations with China, at the White House, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in Washington.

Mnuchin dismisses raising corporate taxes to pay for infrastructure

Colin Wilhelm · December 4, 2018 9:09 pm

In this Sunday, July 8, 2018, photograph, 2018 Model 3 sedans charge while on display outside a Tesla showroom in Littleton, Colo.

Trump administration will ‘seriously consider’ ending electric vehicle tax credit

Colin Wilhelm · December 4, 2018 8:49 pm

President Donald Trump listens to questions from members of the media during his meeting with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G20 Summit, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Beltway Confidential

Trump has all the popular positions on immigration but he’d rather do an easy tax cut. That’s why the GOP lost the House

Eddie Scarry · December 4, 2018 3:15 pm

Read the market’s lips: No new tariffs

Washington Examiner · December 4, 2018 5:00 am

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow talks with reporters about trade negotiations with China, at the White House, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in Washington.

Energy and Environment

Larry Kudlow pledges to end subsidies for electric vehicles

Josh Siegel · December 3, 2018 9:30 pm

Specialist Thomas McArdle, left, and trader Jeffrey Vazquez work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Stocks are opening sharply higher on Wall Street, following gains in overseas markets after the U.S. and China struck a 90-day truce in their trade dispute.

Beltway Confidential

The Trump stock market needs a long-term boost

Ryan Ellis · December 3, 2018 3:56 pm

Demonstrators wearing yellow jackets face water cannons near the Champs-Elysees avenue during a demonstration Saturday, Dec.1, 2018 in Paris. French authorities have deployed thousands of police on Paris' Champs-Elysees avenue to try to contain protests by people angry over rising taxes and Emmanuel Macron's presidency.

Violent protest engulfs central Paris; worst riot in decade

Associated Press · December 1, 2018 8:32 pm

Vice President George Bush and his running mate, Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle, wave to the assembly of the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.

Beltway Confidential

How George H.W. Bush’s broken ‘no new taxes’ pledge changed American politics and policy forever

Philip Klein · December 1, 2018 7:36 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, pauses while speaking during a news conference outside a Democratic caucus meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. Pelosi cleared the first hurdle to serve as House speaker by winning Democrats' nomination on Wednesday, leaving her detractors one last opportunity to attempt to block her when the entire chamber votes in January.

Nancy Pelosi unveils bill to overhaul voting laws, require Trump to release his taxes

Susan Ferrechio · November 30, 2018 5:42 pm