#Shalanda Young

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#Ukraine Aid #Biden Administration #Shalanda Young #News

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BIDEN DRAGS REPUBLICANS LAUDING HIS ECONOMIC POLICIES THEY VOTED AGAINST

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell talks to President Biden's Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young who echoed the President after he went to Chicago to give a speech celebrating America's world-leading post-pandemic economic gains.

#us politics #news #msnbc #2023 #Democrats #republicans #conservatives #infrastructure reform #infrastructure budget #lawrence o'donnell #biden administration #president joe biden #office of management and budget #Shalanda Young #economy

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#shalanda young

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/31/white-house-congressional-spending-government-shutdown/

It's not just the budget that's on the line, so the White House is trying to recenter the conversation. Good luck with that

#White House #Office of Management and Budget #continuing resolution #CR #stopgap #short term extension #one month left #government funding #appropriations #WIC #Women Infants and Children Nutrition Program #Shalanda Young #OMB Director Young

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WATCH: 2022 Video of Budget Director Shalanda Young Claiming Joe Biden Used $1.9 Billion Border Wall Funds For "Community Consultation" Resurfaces | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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The proposed rule, which the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council will publish Monday, would also institute pay transparency measures that require contractors to disclose compensation ranges in job postings.

“Relying on a candidate salary history can exacerbate pre-existing inequality in our pay structures and disproportionately impact women and workers of color,” Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told reporters.

The regulation and proposed rule are both part of an effort for federal employers to disclose expected salary ranges in job postings and reduce pay secrecy to help workers negotiate.

#Biden

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White House on Ukraine aid: "We're out of money"

The US government is pushing for a green light from Congress for further aid to Ukraine. "If Congress does not act, we will run out of resources by the end of the year to procure more weapons and equipment for Ukraine and to provide equipment from U.S. military stockpiles," said White House Budget Office Director Shalanda Young. There is no “magic funding pot” available. "We have no money left - and almost no time left." President Joe Biden requested a financial package worth almost $106 billion from Congress in October that includes, among other things, aid for Ukraine, but also for Israel and security measures at the US border. However, the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans, and aid to Ukraine is highly controversial within their ranks.

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Billions upon billions for Ukraine and Israel; for criminal states that shouldn't actually exist.

#politics #statement

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All the cruel cuts to regular American people proposed by the current Republican party listed.

Read it and be outraged.

#republicans are useless #republicans are nazis #republicans are evil #republicans are domestic terrorists #republicans are fascists

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen and White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda D. Young today released the final budget results for fiscal year (FY) 2022. During FY 2022, the deficit fell by $1.4 trillion—the largest one-year decrease in the Federal deficit in American history.

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#Shalanda Young #Director of the Office of Management and Budget #Budget #News

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President Joe Biden will press House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for a detailed list of spending proposals when the two meet at the White House on Wednesday, officials said ahead of the meeting.

Biden advisers Brian Deese and Shalanda Young said in a memo to reporters Tuesday that the White House would release its own budget in early March.

“It is essential that Speaker McCarthy likewise commit to releasing a budget, so that the American people can see how House Republicans plan to reduce the deficit,” Deese and Young wrote.

A Republican budget proposal, the advisers said, should specify whether Republicans would pursue savings through cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, health insurance subsidies, research or public safety spending.

Republicans should also specify “how much their budget will add to the deficit with tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and large corporations, as in their first bill this year.” House Republicans approved a symbolic bill cutting IRS funding for tax enforcement, which the Congressional Budget Office said would boost deficits by more than $100 billion.

Republicans have signaled they want a major spending showdown with Biden, and that they would use the so-called “debt ceiling” as leverage. The federal government is already butting up against a legal limit on how much it can borrow in order to cover expenses, and if Congress fails to raise the limit, the government would default — potentially triggering a financial crisis and a recession.

Biden has said he would refuse to negotiate over the debt limit, but has nevertheless engaged in a back-and-forth with Republicans, skewering them for suggesting they’d cut spending on popular retirement programs and demanding they be specific about what they want.

Republicans have struggled to define what they’d like to see cut from the federal budget. Some have proposed vague across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending, while others have suggested that it is Biden and the White House who should identify spending restrictions. A top House Republican on Monday said the GOP would seek to cut the “woke agenda” in negotiations with Biden.

Since last week, McCarthy has claimed that Republicans would not propose changes to Social Security or Medicare as part of their spending demands. GOP lawmakers typically sidestep political blowback over such proposals by promising to “strengthen” or “save” those programs instead — with changes for future beneficiaries.

Deese and Young noted Tuesday that the Republican Study Committee, a policy-focused group of House lawmakers, last year proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare through higher eligibility ages and reduced benefits for some recipients.

McCarthy insisted Sunday those programs should be “off the table” for now and that it was a shame congressional Democrats had refused to produce a budget.

“They won’t even negotiate,” McCarthy said on CBS. “I want to make sure we have something responsible, something that we can move forward on and something that we can balance our debt with. So I’m looking [forward to] sitting down. That’s exactly what I’ve been asking for.”

The White House is expected to submit a budget proposal to Congress in the coming weeks, as mandated by federal law. But such plans are often ignored on Capitol Hill. It’s unclear whether the divided and narrow House GOP majority will also produce a budget of its own.

Asked Monday what his message was for McCarthy ahead of their sit-down this week, Biden told reporters: “Show me your budget, I’ll show you mine.”

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Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 9, 2023

Heather Cox Richardson

“Show me your budget,” President Joe Biden is fond of saying, “[and] I’ll tell you what you value.” Today, Biden introduced his 2024 budget at the Finishing Trades Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Biden’s 182-page, $6.9 trillion budget plan advances a vision of the United States based on the idea that the government should invest in workers, families, and infrastructure to increase the purchasing power of those on the “demand side” of the economy. It offers a stark contrast to the theory of the Republicans since the 1980s, that the government should cut taxes and slash government spending to free up capital for those at the top of the economy—on the “supply side”—with the idea they will use that money to invest in new business that will then hire more workers.

So-called supply-side economics was championed as a plan that would enable everyone, from workers to financiers, to thrive together as the economy boomed, but it never produced the kind of growth its promoters promised. Instead, when combined with dramatically increased defense spending, it exploded deficits and added dramatically to the national debt.

At the same time, wealth moved upward dramatically. A 2020 Rand Corporation study found that from 1975 to 2018, about $50 trillion moved from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. The Biden administration has set out to address this inequity by reimposing the rules that used to prevent corporations and the wealthiest Americans from gaming the system, and by making it easier for working men and women to make ends meet.

So far, Biden’s policies have created record numbers of jobs and kept unemployment numbers low, and today’s budget builds on those policies. Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young told reporters that the budget plan was based on four values: “lowering costs for families, protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare, investing in America, and reducing the deficit by ensuring that the wealthiest in this country and big corporations begin to pay their fair share, and cutting wasteful spending on Big Pharma, Big Oil, and other special interests.” And, she added, “It does all of that while ensuring that no one earning less than $400,000 per year will pay a penny more in new taxes.”

Biden has called for rolling back Trump’s 2017 corporate tax cut, bringing the corporate rate up from 21% to 28% (it was 35% before the 2017 cuts). Biden proposed to raise the tax on capital gains for people earning at least $1 million a year from 20% to 39.6%. He wants a 25% minimum income tax rate for households worth at least $100 million, that is, the wealthiest 0.01% of taxpayers, who currently pay a rate of 8%. The plan calls for reversing the Trump tax for those making more than $400,000 a year, putting the top income tax rate to 39% from 37%. Other increases are all in this same vein: increasing revenue from the wealthiest Americans.

Biden’s budget document is not just about funding the government; it is a signal of the principles he might carry into the 2024 presidential contest. It offers Biden’s own blueprint for improving the lives of children, their caregivers, and other ordinary Americans, then undercuts Republican complaints about such investments by emphasizing that Biden’s plan—unlike anything the Republicans have offered—will cut the deficit over the next decade.

House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) promptly tweeted that Biden’s budget is “completely unserious. He proposes trillions in new taxes that you and your family will pay directly or through higher costs. Mr. President: Washington has a spending problem, NOT a revenue problem.”

But McCarthy and the Republicans have not been able to agree on any of the cuts they claim they want to make, and so have not released a budget of their own. Biden has repeatedly asked them for one. He said today: “I want to make it clear. I'm ready to meet with the Speaker anytime—tomorrow, if he has his budget. Lay it down. Tell me what you want to do. I'll show you what I want to do. See what we can agree on. What we don’t agree on, let’s see what we—we vote on.”

Instead of offering a budget plan, Republicans appear to be trying desperately to reassert control over the national political narrative, shoring up the virtual political reality that has given them such power even as it continues to take hits.

A number of reporters, including Nicholas Riccardi and David Bauder of the Associated Press and Nicholas Confessore and Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times, are using documents from the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against the Fox News Network to show how both Trump and then–Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appealed directly to Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch for political support on the Fox News Channel (FNC). Murdoch passed the requests on to FNC executives, and FNC hosts promptly began to do as they were asked.

This pipeline from the Republican Party to the FNC included support for Trump’s tax cuts (“Once they pass this bill we must tell our viewers again and again what they will get,” Murdoch wrote), private sharing of Biden’s 2020 ads with Trump’s campaign, and attacks on Biden. (“Just made sure Fox banging on about these issues,” Murdoch advised. “If the audience talks the theme will spread.”) That support included pumping up Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in his own race (“Could Sean say something supportive? We can’t lose the Senate if at all possible,” Murdoch wrote).

But by 2020 they had created an audience that depended on that narrative, and when they threatened to abandon FNC if it told the truth that Biden won the 2020 election, FNC hosts pushed the lie that Trump won out of fear they would lose their viewers.

The ecosystem that established a virtual political reality is now increasingly under assault.

Today, Bryon M. Large, presiding disciplinary judge of the Colorado Supreme Court, publicly censured Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis for misconduct after she “repeatedly made misrepresentations on national television and on Twitter, undermining the American public’s confidence in the 2020 presidential election.”

Ellis agreed that she had “made…misrepresentations while serving as counsel for the Trump campaign and personal counsel to President Trump.” Top among them was her insistence that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, including her statements that “we know the election was stolen from President Trump and we can prove that,” “the election was stolen and Trump won by a landslide,” and so on.

In Congress, Republicans are holding hearings designed to shore up their narrative, but they are not delivering the smooth sound bites the party needs. The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, chaired by Jim Jordan (R-OH), held another hearing today, this one focused on the idea that the government pressured Twitter to suppress stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

But Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), the ranking Democratic member of the committee, immediately noted that the Republicans would be using material for the hearing that they had not shared with the Democrats, and Jordan got flustered and angry. Then Aaron Blake of the Washington Post fact checked Jordan’s allegations and noted that his theory that the FBI was secretly strategizing to protect Hunter Biden—during Trump’s administration—ignored key events and that two key witnesses had recently contradicted Jordan’s theory in sworn testimony.  

Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, said yesterday he is leading an investigation into the last congress’s House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as on security failures around that event. That investigation, too, might not go well for the Republicans. The January 6th Committee asked Loudermilk to come talk to the committee members voluntarily about a tour he gave of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021. He refused. Video showed that a man from that tour marched on the Capitol the next day, saying, “There’s no escape, Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler. We’re coming for you.”

Finally, today, Republican reputations took a hit when a jury found Larry Householder, the Republican former speaker of the Ohio House, and Matt Borges, the former leader of the Ohio Republican Party, guilty of racketeering conspiracy. In 2017, FirstEnergy Corporation began to funnel $61 million to Householder through dark money groups to enable him to get allies elected and take power. Once in charge, with the help of Borges—who was then a lobbyist—he got a $1.3 billion law through the House to bail the failing company out. Federal prosecutors say it is the largest corruption case in state history.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Slap-A-Thon #Barry Blitt #The New Yorker #Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #Budget #Corrupt GOP #Criminal GOP #show me your budget #income inequality #economics #pay your fair share

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🚨 BREAKING: WH Budget Director Shalanda Young states the Biden Administration is set to provide further aid to Ukraine without Congress's nod if deemed essential.

#UkraineAid #ShalandaYoung #BidenAdministration 🌍🇺🇦

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Received this email today:

The White House Office of Public Engagement invites you to a series of briefings following the State of the Union, to discuss the major themes of the President's remarks and the FY25 Budget.  We hope you will join us to learn more about the Biden-Harris Administration’s Unity Agenda, the President's efforts to build a strong economy, and our commitment to defending rights, Democracy, and freedoms for all Americans.   Please see below for details and register individually for each Zoom via the links provided. MONDAY, MARCH 11 The Biden-Harris Economic Agenda FEATURING:  Secretary Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Department of Transportation Senior Administration Officials WHEN: March 11th at 10:30am EST  WHERE: https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_pRjrPzUKT6CC3AO-dlaI0w FY25 Budget Briefing FEATURING: Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Stephen Benjamin, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the Office of Public Engagement WHEN: March 11th at 2:30 PM EST  WHERE:https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_xvCltC8CTwGF02kCYpcJNg The Biden-Harris Unity Agenda FEATURING: Secretary Xavier Becerra, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Emmy Ruiz, Director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach Senior Administration Officials WHEN: March 11th at 4:00 PM EST  WHERE: https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_uzgE00o2T0C3BCToVzNppA TUESDAY, MARCH 12 The Biden-Harris Commitment to Protecting Rights, Democracy, & Freedoms FEATURING: Anita Dunn, Senior Advisor to the President Jennifer Klein, Co-Chair and Executive Director of the White House Gender Policy Council Natalie Quillian, Deputy Chief of Staff Senior Administration Officials WHEN: March 12th at 3:30 PM EST   WHERE: https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_tGy3EU8MSV6OTX8ZreViJA

Reposting here without comment.

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza