And he’s a hedge fund guy – as you know, the only one who I’m raising taxes for. Taxing carried interest as normal income would generate about $17 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan scorekeeper.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz should be used to winning the Values Voter Summit straw poll by now, but the guys who came in last can’t be used to losing. The closest Republican presidential candidates were retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, with 18 percent, and Huckabee, with 14 percent.
Additionally, Kirby said the agency will incorporate the newly discovered emails into a review of record retention practices that Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry, initiated in March. “There are lots of people who wanted there to be a race for...
Muniz also believes Donald Trump has pushed immigration rhetoric in the wrong direction, and that several of the candidates tried to jump on Trump’s ideas as a way to boost their own poll numbers.
Trump has a core of hard support from voters who rally to his harsh anti-undocumented-immigrant rhetoric.Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is boasting about keeping his lead in the polls, but that isn’t deterring him from sniping at rivals and complaining...
While Trump may have a firm hold on the lead spot, “29 percent of GOP voters say they “would definitely not support” him, according to the poll. Marco Rubio over former two-term Gov. Jeb Bush as their presidential nominee.
And dropping PPOs appears to be a nationwide trend, says Lisa Reid, director of life and health at the state Office of the Superintendent of Insurance.
The bill, up for a vote on Thursday, will likely be blocked by Democrats, setting up Republicans for a government shutdown threat over an opportunity to increase spending.
Donald Trump has slipped as several rival candidates have gained on the 2016 GOP front-runner, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll following the second Republican debate. She’s above water against Trump by just two points (45-43).
In general election match-ups, Carson is the only GOP candidate who tops Clinton – earning 49 percent support among all voters to Clinton’s 42 percent. Marco Rubiohas leapfrogged a onetime mentor, former Gov. Jeb Bush, in a poll of Florida voters released Wednesday by...
The next steps aren’t set in stone, although McConnell has promised there won’t be a government shutdown. Threatening to shut down the government if Planned Parenthood funding remains in the current budget has certainly been their most prominent – and urgent –...