Payroll Tax
Payroll-Tax Rift Throws GOP a Curve
Republican leaders face pushback from their rank and file as they try to sell another year of the cut. Republican leaders in Congress are facing a pushback from their rank and file as they try to sell another year of a payroll tax
The Senate rejected two different plans for extending the payroll tax holiday for another year, and it mostly went along party lines. At the bottom of it all was the usual discussion we've been seeing on every spending issue for
The Senate rejected two different plans for extending the payroll tax holiday for another year, and it mostly went along party lines. At the bottom of it all was the usual discussion we've been seeing on every spending issue for
In an exclusive interview with TPM, Nancy Pelosi sketched out the Democrats' strategy for renewing (and possibly expanding) the payroll tax cut.
The first demonstration of that came Wednesday when Senate Republicans proposed taking money from government workers to cover the cost of extending the payroll tax cut. Legislation proposed by Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) would have, among other