• Today (7/19) President Joe Biden has said that his $1.8 trillion infrastructure plan must be passed in order to keep the economy’s momentum 
• For the Wednesday deadline set by the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the GOP motioned their opposition for the procedural vote
• Republicans as a majority oppose Biden’s plan for its negative impact on the economy with drastic increases in inflation

Federal voting bill taken to Georgia by Senate Democrats 

• Senate Democrats have taken their case for a federal voting bill to Georgia today (7/19) and this measure is needed for them to counter the state’s tightened voting laws
• In order to gain attention for their elections and voting agenda, Democrats used the rare field hearing in Atlanta
• Without a real plan, Democrats are seeking to keep the spotlight on voting issues, as they search for other ways to pass less important voting proposals

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• Last year with Proposition 208 that raised taxes on the wealthy in favor of more school funding are now aimed to block new tax cuts in the state of Arizona
• Currently, the group has 90 days to collect 120,000 signatures which are required to stop the tax cuts until voters can get involved on November 2022
• The tax cuts would cut almost $2 billion annually from the state and benefit wealthy individuals and businesses 

• With President Joe Biden’s new Infrastructure plan, Climate activist have come out and pressed for emphasis of tending to climate change in the new plan
• This renewed urgency comes after the bipartisan infrastructure plan had removed parts of President Biden’s “key” climate initiatives 

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• By highlighting the economic benefits of his Infrastructure Package plan, President Joe Biden hopes he can get it on track
• I highlighting the benefits, he is stressing the $973 billion is going to include the largest investment in transportation in almost 100 years and would create many jobs
• The plan also suggested that 90% of the jobs it creates will go to those workers who do not have college degrees

California Democrats are attempting to change recall laws once more

• For the second time in 4 years, Democrats in California are attempting to change the state’s recall laws 
• Currently, Democrats want the opportunity to move things along more quickly in order to take advantage of what they believe are more favorable for Newsom which is altering the recall timeline

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• A group of Senate Republicans plans to send the Biden administration an infrastructure counteroffer as soon as Thursday
• Hopes for a bipartisan deal appeared to dim last week after the White House sent the GOP a $1.7 trillion proposal, which slashed $600 billion from the president’s original plan
• The GOP measure is expected to approach $1 trillion

• George Floyd’s death sparked a global reckoning over racism and growing calls for police reform, but a legislative response has been elusive
• Still, congressional negotiators remain optimistic about the prospects for a bill and they’ve displayed a steady solidarity
• The Democratic-controlled House approved a sweeping bill in March that would make it easier for individual police officers to be sued and charged with crimes

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