Tag: beautiful
How Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise Energy Costs, Carbon Emissions
Higher Bills, Hotter Planet: What Trump’s Megabill Means for You Household energy expenses will rise, as will greenhouse gas emissions, as a result of the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act By Benjamin Storrow & E&E News Join Our Community of Science Lovers! CLIMATEWIRE | The sweeping budget bill signed by President Donald Trump…
What Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act means for taxes on Social Security
Laurel Wamsley In the hours after Congress passed President Trump’s megabill, an email from the Social Security Administration hit the inboxes of many Americans. It applauded the legislation’s passage and said it includes a provision that “eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security benefits for most beneficiaries.” But experts say the email was misleading and…
Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise U.S. Climate Emissions
Republicans’ Megabill Will Put U.S. Climate Goals Out of Reach Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reach By Zack Colman & E&E News CLIMATEWIRE | The rollbacks in clean energy incentives in Republicans’ budget…
Congress passed no tax on tips in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill.’ Here’s how it works
Luke Garrett Tipped workers in the U.S. could see significant changes to their taxes after Congress approved President Trump’s legislative agenda on Thursday. This week, the GOP-controlled Senate and House narrowly passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a massive spending and tax package that creates limited and temporary tax exemptions for tips, among…
What children in poverty could lose from the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Cory Turner Low-income children and families would be among the groups hit hardest by Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While the bill would be a boon to wealthy Americans, it would scale back resources for the nation’s poorest households, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warned in a recent letter to lawmakers. In an…
One Big Beautiful Bill Act Called a Clean Energy ‘Nightmare Scenario’
Republican Megabill Called a ‘Nightmare Scenario’ for Clean Energy The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by the House of Representatives last week, would slow efforts to green the energy system as climate change accelerated By Benjamin Storrow & E&E News U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media after the…
The first time we had ‘one big, beautiful bill’ we called it Reaganomics
Ron Elving Have some sympathy for the headline writers and TV chyron composers trying to describe what’s happening on Capitol Hill right now. Should they just call it the “budget bill” (yawn) or the “mega bill” (one eye opens) or the “gargantuan package deal”? Many simply succumb and adopt President Trump’s phrase “one big, beautiful…
The latest roadblock for House Republicans’ ‘big beautiful bill’: Senate Republicans
Deirdre Walsh As House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., feverishly works to finalize the details of a massive package that includes major portions of President Trump’s agenda, many Senate Republicans are dismissing the legislation before it is even finished in the House. “Unfortunately, it’s a sad joke,” Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson said Wednesday “Wimpy,” and…
Why Trump blinked before imposing his ‘beautiful’ tariffs on Canada and Mexico
Trump has teased two of the US’s biggest trading partners with levies but has moved the goalpost at least three times in two weeks Donald Trump was in his element in the Oval Office this week. Surrounded by cameras, flanked by billionaire allies and confronted by a barrage of questions about whether he was really…