The Lever
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- 🚨NEWS: Republicans put a line in their budget bill that ends the wildly popular program letting Americans file their taxes for free. The bill then launches an initiative to enrich private tax prep corporations that just delivered campaign cash to the GOP.
- As Republicans try to slash Medicaid, their tax bill including a new tax cut on purchases of gun silencers. waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u...
- Today on Capitol Hill, Republicans are trying to slip a tiny provision into their budget bill which would help the tech industry collude to jack up rents across America. It’s literally happening right now in the House as you read this sentence - pass it on👇
- After a lobbying surge, rent-tech giant RealPage is set to score a nationwide reprieve from crackdowns on how it’s price-gouging renters and fueling the housing crisis. www.levernews.com/republicans-...
- As the GOP tries to ram Trump’s tax cuts through Congress this week, the decades-long conservative tax revolt comes to a head. The Lever’s new podcast series, Tax Revolt, is required listening if you want to know what is happening and why. Listen now at LeverNews.com/TaxRevolt
- House lawmakers writing the upcoming budget bill just snuck in a provision that would wipe from the books every state law regulating artificial intelligence. www.levernews.com/gop-chooses-...
- Trump offers selective sanctuary, airlines sell your data to immigration enforcers, RFK institutes radical opacity, and more from The Lever this week. www.levernews.com/lever-weekly...
- 🚨INVESTIGATION: An Elon Musk-bankrolled lobby group is on the verge of getting lawmakers to change the law to help Musk & other billionaires weaponize lawsuits to bankrupt you if you criticize them. Musk calls himself a “free speech absolutist.” www.levernews.com/the-texas-si...
- 🚨TAX REVOLT, EPISODE 4: The Lever's interview with GOP anti-tax enforcer Grover Norquist, who's led a 30-year crusade to make high-income tax cuts Republican orthodoxy. Fascinating discussion as Trump TODAY just explicitly pushed back against Norquist. www.levernews.com/tax-revolt-p...
- 🚨NEWS: Elon Musk & Big Oil are bankrolling the lobby group behind new legislation to erode the First Amendment & empower corporations & billionaires to use retaliatory lawsuits to silence critics - and bankrupt them if they speak out. Huge story here👇
