Sheldon Whitehouse: “We really need to get that money out of politics, and this is an important area.”

President Trump’s 2017 tax law and Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires bill handed billionaires and big corporations massive tax breaks on private jets. The Trump administration now says it would be ‘burdensome’ to close the private jet tax…

We need more clarity on that.

The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.

Most of the dealbreaker humps we’re over, but now it’s refining the language, taking raw agreements into legislative texts and figuring out what schedule for voting succeeds.