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Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Moderate Democrats offer counter tax plan
A group of moderate House Democrats will release their proposal Wednesday for how their party should revamp taxes if given the chance, drawing a contrast with Republicans' own sweeping legislation. The goal of the plan from the New Democrat Coalition is to 'promote economic growth without exacerbating the long-term fiscal situation or cutting essential programs like Medicaid and SNAP,' according to a summary shared with Semafor. It includes some of the policies Republicans want to enact as part of their megabill — like expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and expanding the Child Tax Credit — but takes them a step further, including by making the CTC refundable. At the same time, it would preserve the same Biden-era clean energy tax credits that the GOP's legislation seeks to erase Republicans 'decided to do it in a way that only favors the very wealthy at the expense of everyone else,' said Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., who oversaw the drafting of the proposal as chair of the group's tax taskforce and has penned his own no-tax-on-tips legislation. 'Now the question is, 'Will Republicans continue to walk the plank, or join with Democrats?'' Horsford added that he expects Democrats in purple districts to campaign on the proposal in the 2026 midterms as the party seeks to draw in economically disillusioned voters while fueling discontent with the GOP's tax-and-spending plan. 'You can't just be against Donald Trump or Republicans. You have to also articulate what you're for. And this is the difference and why this framework from the New Dems really matters,' Horsford said. He argued that Democrats must outline specific changes, like the tax plan, that address Americans' deep-seated dissatisfaction with their financial straits, rather than simply focusing their economic messaging on restoring the status quo by reversing the GOP measure's cuts to Medicaid (or challenging the president's tariffs). 'We have to envision what things will look like when we work to build it back up — and it can't be built back the way it was, because it wasn't so great,' Horsford said. 'How we center those things [is] really going to matter for us.'
Daily Mirror
02-06-2025
- Daily Mirror
Man's seven chilling words after 'stabbing young hairstylist to death'
Jackson Sagesse, 27, has been charged with premeditated murder and attempted first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing a successful young hair stylist to death A huge 280lb knifeman is said to have bragged to police he had stabbed a successful young hairstylist to death with a steak knife. Hailey Horsford had only just exited a rental car after arriving in Retreat at Sawgrass Village in Sunrise, Florida at 1.30am on May 8 when she is said to have spotted armed Jackson Sagesse approach her in the darkness. The 27-year-old allegedly then jumped into the back of her car, a black Mercedes, on the rear passenger side. An affidavit alleges that Sagesse ripped the door from its handle. Horsford was found after she was stabbed multiple times, with her male friend left injured. The New York Post, which viewed the affidavit, reports Sagesse allegedly boasted "I just killed someone and walked away" while he was being read his Miranda rights. According to the police, a physical altercation between Hosford and Sagesse was captured on CCTV in which the Sagesse could be seen making repeated stabbing motions into the car. Sagesse could then be seen exiting the car, and is confronted by Ms Horsford's friend, with the two involved in a "violent confrontation" before Sagesse stabs the unnamed man in the throat. He managed to escape and later called the police, with Sagesse allegedly returning to the vehicle and mounting a failed bid to escape before he is seen searching the area and then leaving the garage. Police arrived at the scene to find Hosford unresponsive having suffered multiple stab wounds to her neck and throat. She was pronounced dead at 2.01am. Her friend, who survived the attack, suffered a puncture wound to the throat. Hosford was a successful hair stylist who owned her own beauty salon in Fort Lauderdale. She also worked as a teacher and ambassador for a yoga and retreat company. Her friends have remembered the stylist as a "force to be reckoned with". Aubrey Rosebrock told local outlet WSVN she believed her friend "fought" and that "she was scared" during the encounter that claimed her life. She said: "I know she was a fighter; I believe she fought, and I believe she was scared." Mr Rosebeck also revealed the heartbreaking final message he received from Ms Horsford. He said: "Her very last message to me was, 'I just wanted to tell you that the sun is shining, the sky is blue, the water is turquoise, and that I love you much, and that you mean the world to me,' and that was the very last thing she said." Police later revealed that detectives searching inside the phone found blood smeared on the back door and discovered two kitchen knives were missing. Sagesse later said he was "murdering for self-defense" after seeing what he claimed was a suspicious-looking car. However, he failed to justify the threat that led to his actions. Sagesse was charged with premeditated murder and attempted first-degree murder. He remains in the Broward County Jail, where he was placed after booking, and is being held without bail.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Horsford predicts more ‘WTF' moments as House committees take up Trump budget bill
evada Democratic Rep. Steven Horford at a rally featuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders in North Las Vegas, March 20, 2025. (Photo: Michael Lyle/Nevada Current) Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) is expecting fireworks this week as three House committees are slated to mark up President Donald Trump's 'big beautiful' budget bill. A draft released over the weekend from the Energy and Commerce Committee includes work requirements for Medicaid recipients, and in an effort to save money, changes how states raise their portion of Medicaid funds. Horsford, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, which is scheduled to mark up the bill on Tuesday, says he is tracking the proposed elimination of the provider tax, which is imposed on nursing homes and hospitals in Nevada to help offset the state's share of Medicaid funding. All states, with the exception of Alaska, rely on provider taxes to help increase the amount of Medicaid funding they receive from the federal government. A Senate Finance Committee document from January estimates a savings to the federal budget of $175 billion over a decade by eliminating the tax. Nevada has a 6% provider tax in place on nursing facilities and hospitals. In 2023, Gov. Joe Lombardo's budget estimated the tax would generate $388 million in the 2024/25 fiscal year. 'I think you'll see some more 'WTF' moments,' Horsford said of the mark up sessions during a phone interview Monday, harkening back to his exchange last month during a House hearing with a U.S. trade representative, who said he learned while testifying that Trump had paused some tariffs. 'He announced it on a Tweet?' Horsford barked at the official. 'WTF! Who's in charge?' Hours before the pause, Trump, via social media, advised investors to buy stocks, leading to questions about improper manipulation of the markets and allegations that Trump insiders are profiting from the president's political moves. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that purchasers of Trump's $TRUMP meme coin spent $148 million to win a chance at dining with Trump at his private golf club later this month, according to crypto intelligence firm Inca Digital. Trump's move to 'invite his biggest investors from his crypto meme' to the event 'flies in the face of logic and ethics,' Horsford said. Horsford says Trump's assertion Sunday that the U.S. will accept a 747-8 jumbo jet from the Qatari royal family to replace Air Force One violates the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits a federal officer from accepting gifts and other benefits from a foreign government, without approval from Congress. 'This president doesn't give a 'f' about standards,' Horsford said. 'The Supreme Court basically said he has full immunity to do anything that he chooses as the president, and he's definitely showing that now in the first 100 days of this presidency.' So far this year, Congress has passed half a dozen bills, leaving the government to operate largely on executive fiat. Horsford is hoping legislation aimed at curtailing corporate buying of housing stock nationwide will resonate on both sides of the aisle. Almost one-third of homes in North Las Vegas and 15% of homes in Las Vegas 'are owned by these corporate, out-of-state hedge funds,' Horsford said, which are targeting 'working-class neighborhoods that are predominantly Black and Latino.' Horsford's Housing Oversight and Mitigating Exploitation Act of 2025 (HOME Act) would make it illegal for corporate investors to sell or rent at unreasonable prices during an affordable housing crisis. 'Even when they convert the property to a rental, they're gouging renters, charging upwards of 30% more, evicting at higher rates, and not maintaining the properties,' Horsford said, adding the 'bill has gotten traction. There are Republicans who identify that it's a problem.' Another bill, Utilizing National Land for Opportunities and Community Key (UNLOCK), seeks to make federal land available, 'especially for multi-family properties,' says a news release. Unlike other measures sponsored by Nevada congressional delegates, Horsford's would allow the Bureau of Land Management to not only sell, but also lease land to local governments and Native American tribes. Horsford joined other Nevada Democrats who condemned Rep. Mark Amodei, the state's only Republican in Congress, for submitting a last-minute amendment last week to the Republican budget package that would sell off nearly 450,000 acres of public lands in Nevada, some of it in Clark County. Income generated from the sale of Nevada's public lands in the amendment would not fund projects in Nevada, as portions of federal land sales income have in the past. Instead it would be siphoned to the U.S. Treasury to help cover the Trump administration's proposed tax cuts, according to the amendment. 'Obviously, I take offense to my colleague from the north offering an amendment in the dead of the night that had no advance notice, no consultation with me or my office,' Horsford said Monday. 'He doesn't represent one square inch of Clark County. I do, and my constituents should always have a say when it comes to the land legislation dealing with Southern Nevada.' A third bill introduced by Horsford, the Housing Market Transparency Act, would require states and the federal government to maintain data on properties that receive Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). 'We need transparency for landlords who are still receiving tax credits because they have a requirement to keep those units affordable for the term of the tax credit,' he said, adding there's currently no effort to ensure that's happening. Horsford and fellow Nevada Democratic Rep. Susie Lee were among 35 Democrats who joined Republicans early this month in voting to eliminate an Environmental Protection Agency waiver that allowed California to set its own emission standards, including a mandate that all passenger cars sold by 2035 be emission-free. 'The vote I took opposes the California Clean Car waiver, because it puts too much pressure on the industry to actually meet the requirements, because of all of the uncertainty that's coming from Donald Trump and the tariffs,' Horsford said. 'Literally, they don't have the ability to stay on track. My commitment to electric vehicles and to renewables remains sound, but I support giving additional flexibility.' Horsford said he was unaware of a Government Accounting Office directive that Congress did not have the authority to repeal the waiver.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trade war, hedge funds, lumber: Nevada congressman talks money
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The air brake hiss of the bus leaving Chinatown is not a sound commonly linked with the housing crisis, but community leaders tell Nevada's congressional leadership it's a note in their chorus call for help. There are 78,000 acres of underutilized land in the core of the Las Vegas Valley, according to a new report from the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) and ECONorthwest. Minjia Yan, director of Millenium Commercial Properties, highlighted the report during an affordable housing meeting with U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.). 'Some of these areas are an abandoned Kmart building on Rainbow and Spring Mountain that has been vacant for 20 years,' Yan said. RTC bussing is also a part of the conversation as Yan said the cost of transportation and rent is connected. 'The true cost of housing is the cost of housing plus cost of transportation,' she said. 'Where you live, you have to be accessible to where you work, where you go to schools, where you get access to the amenities that you need in your daily life.' Surrounded by other community leaders, Horsford nodded along with Yan's points and expressed gratitude to the number of viewpoints in the roundtable discussion. 'It's about listening to the leaders in our community who both have the lived experience of housing and affordability,' Horsford said. 'As well as advocates and organizations that are working on the solutions.' Representatives from Compass Development, Nevada Homeless Alliance, Nevada Housing Coalition, Hopelink of Southern Nevada, and the Nevada Housing Division met with Horsford to discuss their view from the ground level of the housing crisis. 'It's about land, lumber, labor, all of which are driving factors in the affordability crisis, not only for low-income and affordable housing but for housing at every level throughout the valley,' Horsford said. 'And that's something that we are working extremely hard on, and that will help inform our legislation.' The cost of construction goods for new homes impacted by the Trump administration's newest tariffs, according to Horsford. During a Wednesday hearing the Nevada representative grilled the White House's top trade negotiator on trade strategy. 'So, the trade representative hasn't spoken to the President of the United States about a global reordering of trade and yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF, who's in charge?' Horsford said. 'It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you and paused the tariffs, the taxes on the American people.' U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the president 'is in charge' and that he doesn't disclose his 'conversations with the president.' Sitting in his office, Horsford told 8 News Now he didn't intend to create the viral moment but instead hoped to focus on the impact on Las Vegas-based tourism. 'I didn't go into that hearing planning to talk about the tariffs and the pause,' he said. 'I actually went into the hearing planning to talk about the effect of tariffs and its impact on our tourism economy, because we've already seen a decline of about 17% of international tourists coming from places like Canada, which is affecting our livelihood and those that work in the tourism.' Horsford said what happened instead was Greer, who advises the president on trade strategy, appeared to be made aware of the recent tariff pause at the same time as others in the hearing room. 'Which then caused me to question, well, who's in charge and who's actually making these recommendations to the President,' he said. 'And then as he's answering the question, it became obvious to me. Oh, this was their plan all along, which led leads into the question was this market manipulation?' The influence on the increasing cost of the Southern Nevada housing market also a target for Horsford who pointed to hedge funds as a major culprit. 'These hedge funds have come in and now own nearly a third of the homes in North Las Vegas in particular,' he said. 'That's one in three homes you can drive down certain blocks, and virtually the entire block is owned by these out-of-state hedge funds.' Horsford said he has introduced legislation to crack down on corporate hedge funds and would address market manipulation. 'I'm about creating economic opportunity,' Horsford said. 'While these other forces are trying to literally take that housing off the market.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
10-04-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Watch: Trump trade representative Jamieson Greer, Rep. Steven Horsford have fiery exchange on tariff pause
As President Trump announced a pause to his sweeping reciprocal tariffs Wednesday, his trade representative, Jamieson Greer, was in the middle of testifying at a House hearing on the administration's trade policy. Greer appeared to learn of the president's decision to pause the tariffs for 90 days the same time the public did, as he was sitting before members of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Trade. Asked when he was made aware of the pause by Rep. Steven Horsford, a Democrat from Nevada, Greer said, "Well, I understood the decision was made a few minutes ago — and under discussion." "So did you know that this was under discussion and why did you not include that as part of your opening remarks?" Horsford asked. Greer replied he doesn't share the contents of his discussions with Mr. Trump. Immediately after Mr. Trump announced the pause, the U.S. stock market surged . It had fallen significantly after the president's initial announcement on the tariffs. A universal tariff of 10% remained in place for nearly every country, except China, which faces an even higher tariff of 125%. China raised its own tariffs against the U.S. Horsford pressed Greer for details of the pause. "I understand it's 90 days. I haven't spoken to the president since I've been in this hearing," Greer said. Horsford interrupted, "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the president of the United States about a global re-ordering of trade?" "Yes I have, I'm just here in a hearing with you," Greer interjected. "And yet he announced it on a tweet? W.T.F.? Who's in charge?" Horsford yelled. "The president of the United States is in charge," Greer said. "And what do you know about those details?" Horsford asked. Before Greer could answer, he said, "It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you." "There's no strategy," Horsford said. "You just found out. Three seconds ago. Sitting here. We saw you. If you came here knowing that you were going to be turned off, that these tariffs were going to be turned off, why didn't you include that in your opening statement? Why didn't you reference that as part of your testimony?" Greer repeated he doesn't disclose his conversations with the president. "These were specific questions we asked you all along," Horsford said. "What's the strategy? These are real consequences for the American people and small businesses. … This is amateur hour and it needs to stop. What does this even mean for your negotiating strategy? How are you in charge of negotiation if the president is tweeting about this from wherever the hell he is?" "The president was elected and he runs the trade policy and I advise him and execute his policy," Greer said. "Did you know that this was happening?" Horsford pressed. "We had been discussing all kinds of options, Sir," Greer said. "There was no strategy. There was no plan," Horsford said, adding that Mr. Trump "put our economy in disarray and near collapse." The Trump administration has argued the tariffs were a "negotiating strategy." Horsford asked Greer if this was market manipulation. When Greer answered, "No," Horsford, said "Why not? If it was a plan. If it was always the plan, how is this not market manipulation?" "We're trying to reset the global trade system," Greer said. "And what has that done? How have you achieved any of that? But to enact enormous harm on the American people?" Horsford said. "Tariffs are a tool. It can be used in the appropriate way to protect U.S. jobs and small businesses, but that's not what this does, so if it's not market manipulation, what is it? Who's benefitting? What billionaire just got richer?" Horsford then slammed Republicans for their budget plan and repeated to Greer, "Who's in charge? Because it sure doesn't look like it's the trade representative. You just got the rug pulled out from under you." "I wish I could feel some empathy, but the empathy I have is for the American people whose very wellbeing and livelihoods are being effected. This is not a game. This is real life," Horsford said before yielding his time.
