Melanie Zanona
Capitol Hill Correspondent at NBC News
Senior congressional reporter for @PunchbowlNews & on-air contributor for @NBC. Chi till I die. My party trick is IDing lawmakers by the back of their heads.
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2 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Scott Wong |Melanie Zanona
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday unveiled the legislative text of their sweeping tax proposal for the massive bill for President Donald Trump's agenda, but punted a fight on a nagging sticking point: how much to lift the cap on the deduction for state and local taxes, known as SALT.
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5 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Melanie Zanona |Julie Tsirkin |Scott Wong |Sahil Kapur
/ Updated President Donald Trump’s last-minute push to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans is running into a buzzsaw of opposition in the Republican Party, where such proposals have long been anathema.
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6 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Melanie Zanona |Yamiche Alcindor |Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump privately pressed Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., during a phone call on Wednesday to add two additional proposals to the massive package for his agenda: raising the tax rate on the highest earners and closing the so-called carried interest loophole, according to a Republican leadership source as well as two other GOP sources familiar with the call.
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6 days ago |
yahoo.com | Melanie Zanona
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump privately pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., during a phone call Wednesday to add two additional proposals to the massive package for his agenda: one to raise the tax rate on the highest earners and the other to close the so-called carried interest loophole, according to a Republican leadership source, as well as two other GOP sources familiar with the call.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Megan Lebowitz |Sahil Kapur |Bridget Bowman |Melanie Zanona
Updated In a wide-ranging interview with BBC radio, former President Joe Biden called President Donald Trump's dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine "modern-day appeasement" and defended his record on the U.S. economy. Several of Trump's top officials, including his energy, agriculture and treasury secretaries and his FBI director, will testify to Congress today at hearings on the president's budget and other priorities.
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