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Taxes: What would Biden's tax proposal mean for America?
If former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidency, taxes will likely increase for the top 1 percent of American taxpayers. Doug Sword takes a look at what the candidate is proposing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Immigration: Detainees placed in solitary confinement
Newly unsealed documents reveal that a private immigration detention firm placed detainees in solitary confinement for failing to volunteer for clean-up duty, contradicting what the company told Congress recently. Tanvi Misra reports. Learn more about you
Immigration: DHS misuses funds to round up migrants bound for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security agents in Guatemala misused State Department funds to rent unmarked vans and round up hundreds of U.S.-bound migrants and send them to Honduras. Camila DeChalus reports on this finding by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Rel
Budget deep dive: Republicans and Trump at odds over coronavirus relief
President Donald Trump and GOP leaders are at odds over how much COVID-19 aid the government should spend with Trump saying he wants negotiators to “go big” while Senate Republicans pursue a smaller bill. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt dis
Fintech Beat: The Fed, fintech, and corporate bond markets
Chris White, the CEO of Bondcliq, explains why the Fed's attempts to save the economy through corporate debt purchases needs an upgrade, starting with the bond market itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Health: The COVID vaccine furthest along may face a storage shortage
The Trump administration is leaving it up to states to locate medical grade deep freezers capable of storing Pfizer's vaccine, Emily Kopp reports. Medical supply chain experts describe them as "unicorns." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.
Tech: The three biggest threats to election security
CQ Roll Call's Gopal Ratnam has more on what's keeping election security experts up at night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Political Theater: The odd, hybrid world of the vice presidency
The vice presidency is a strange office, a hybrid of both the executive branch and the legislative branch, someone who breaks ties on Senate votes and can preside over the counting of his own electoral votes in a joint session of Congress. So Wednesday ni
Health: How different are the presidential candidates' plans to fight COVID?
We compare the similarities and differences in the Trump administration's plan to fight COVID versus Joe Biden's plan. CQ Roll Call reporter Andrew Siddons takes a look after Vice President Mike Pence called Biden's plan "plagiarism" during Wednesday's vi
Equal Time: Joe Biden, Clarence Thomas, and Amy Coney Barrett with Angela Wright
It is not everyday that one person has a relationship to so many of the day's main news stories but Angela Wright has touched history as the woman not called to support Anita Hill when she testified before the Senate Judiciary committee during Clarence Th