Sheldon Whitehouse: “275 out of 315 pages of the dirty Default on America Bill are devoted to giveaways to the fossil fuel industry.”

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…

I would say I was an early believer in Josh’s race. I served in the Senate with Tom Harkin. I know what Iowa can deliver because I saw Tom Harkin in action.

We need more clarity on that, and when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.

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.