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On Thursday, 9 GOP senators who serve in the Senate Finance Committee issued an open letter to President Trump to express their support for his desire to block the expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and their determination not to “support a tax package that only provides temporary relief from tax hikes.” If the provisions are allowed to expire, marginal rates will return to their permanent TCJA levels of 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, 35%, and 39.6%. The TCJA reduced those to 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 37%. Under the TCJA, basic standard deduction amounts were nearly doubled. They were adjusted annually for inflation after 2018. The TCJA essentially suspended the personal exemption. “You were elected with a mandate to do big things,” the letter began. “One of those big things is to provide lasting tax relief for small businesses and families across the country. As members of the Senate Finance Committee, we write to express our support for your position that the expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act must be permanent and not sunset. After passage of your tax cuts in 2017, we had a booming economy with soaring investment, higher wages, increased productivity, and zero corporate inversions. Without action, at the end of this year, taxes will increase for Americans in every income group and nearly six million jobs are at risk.” “A temporary extension of these pro-growth and pro-families policies is a missed opportunity,” they declared. “Businesses need certainty while investing in their companies and taxpayers should not fear tax hikes due to Congressional inaction. Congressional Republicans have an historic opportunity to enact this lasting tax relief. Failing to act boldly does a disservice to the American people who entrusted us to deliver in November. Thus, we will not support a tax package that only provides temporary relief from tax hikes.” “If lawmakers fail to extend these provisions, 62% of filers would see a tax increase,” Faith Jablokow of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance stated. “Additionally, the TCJA fostered a 4.7% increase in corporate investment, a significant achievement. This is due to the TCJA lowering the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. This had the dual effect of making American corporations more competitive globally and allowing them more liquid assets to invest back into the economy.” GOP Senators Steve Daines (MT), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (SD), Mike Crapo (ID), John Barrasso (WY), James Lankford (OK), Ron Johnson (WI), Roger Marshall (KS), Marsha Blackburn (TN), and Thom Tillis (N.C.) signed the letter.

An elderly pro-life sidewalk counselor who was brutally beaten outside of a Baltimore Planned Parenthood said he would be willing to go back to court after a jury declined to convict his attacker of first-degree assault. Mark Crosby told The Daily Wire this week that he would be willing to have his case go to trial again after a jury convicted 28-year-old Patrick Brice of multiple lower assault charges while not reaching a verdict on the more serious first-degree assault charge. Brice was caught on video beating then 73-year-old Crosby and 80-year-old Richard Schaefer back in 2023 outside of a Planned Parenthood building. Last week, a jury in Baltimore convicted Brice on two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment while not coming to an agreement on the first-degree assault charge after a two day trial. A first degree assault conviction could have carried 25 years in prison. Crosby told The Daily Wire that he was surprised that Brice was not convicted on the first-degree assault charge, saying that the surveillance video posted during the trial seemed to have an impact on the jurors. “Some of the jurors were actually moaning and one was crying, and they were looking away, gasping at his attack on us,” he said. The footage shows Brice tackling Schaefer into a large potted plant after a heated exchange. Crosby then ran over to help Schaefer before he was forced to the ground. The man in the video punches Crosby in the face and kicks him in the head. “I call it attempted murder. If you watch the video, he actually is straddling me and he hits me double fisted,” Crosby said. Crosby was treated after the attack for a fractured bone in his face, blindness in one eye, head and neck pain, two fractured fingers, and bruising on his arms and legs. “Whether we want to retry it, we’ll see,” he said, saying it would be up to the legal team at the Thomas More Society. “I’m willing to retry it even though it’s a major stress for me.” He added that the “result is probably better than nothing,” but would wait to see when Brice is sentenced on March 20. A maximum sentence for second-degree assault could be up to 10 years in prison and a $2,500 fine. Crosby believed that one of the reasons for the attack was because he and Schaefer had been effective in convincing women to turn to a nearby crisis pregnancy center. He previously told The Daily Wire that both men have frequently returned to the Planned Parenthood. He said Schaefer still stood outside five days a week and that he would be “back in action” after the trial ended.

“Captain America: Brave New World” is slated to open this weekend and it’s already generating negative attention, with some of the worst critical reviews of any Marvel film to date. The fourth installment in the MCU’s Captain America franchise is led by Anthony Mackie, who took over the role from Chris Evans. Other main characters in this latest installment include Red Hulk (Harrison Ford), The Leader (Tim Blake Nelson), and Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito). “Brave New World” has debuted with a 52% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes as of Thursday afternoon. Comparatively, that puts it only ahead of “Eternals” (2021) and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (2023), two recent MCU films that also got poor reviews from critics. Digital Trends critic A. A. Dowd called the film a new “rock bottom” for the franchise with a “mess” of a plot. “No blockbuster that cost this much money should look this shoddy,” he added. “With its cheap action and garish visuals, it’s then that we enter yet another genre altogether: action-figure commercial,” observed New York Times critic Brandon Yu. Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri also had harsh words, calling Marvel a “giant slop machine” and saying the franchise was spinning “out of control into the confused and shallow mess that we have before us.” Meanwhile, Washington Post critic Ty Burr gave the film 1.5 stars and called it “humorless” and a “pixel-pounding mishmash” that is “more interested in fan service and protecting corporate IP” than in telling a good story. “The fight sequences are meditative, the grave-whisper acting belongs in a coming-attraction trailer from 1996 and, yet again, the viewer needs to have watched a TV series and at least two movies to fully grasp what’s happening,” New York Post reporter Johnny Oleksinski wrote. The movie’s synopsis says, “Anthony Mackie returns as the high-flying hero Sam Wilson, who’s officially taken up the mantle of Captain America. After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.” Bad reviews are only the latest controversy for the new “Captain America.” Recently, the film’s star came under fire for comments he made about the titular character. Mackie said, “For me, Captain America represents a lot of different things and I don’t think the term ‘America’ should be one of those representations. It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor, dignity, and integrity. Someone who is trustworthy and dependable.” After his comments went viral, the actor clarified his statements and called himself “a proud American.” “Let me be clear about this, I’m a proud American and taking on the shield of a hero like CAP [Captain America] is the honor of a lifetime,” he said, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “I have the utmost respect for those who serve and have served our country,” he added. “CAP has universal characteristics that people all over the world can relate to.”

Mary Lou Retton has a grandson, and the brand-new baby is a perfect 10. Mary Lou’s daughter, Shayla Schrephfer, welcomed son Sullivan Wyatt Schrepfer on February 1. Shayla shared a darling Instagram video with her baby wrapped in a fluffy brown blanket as she swayed him over a pink outfit and blue outfit and text that reads, “Boy or Girl?” The next thing we see is sweet Sully dressed and ready to cuddle. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shayla Kelley Schrepfer (@shaylaschrepfer) A follower wrote, “Congratulations!! So happy for you!! Welcome to the world, Sullivan!” Another shared, “Can’t wait to hear the story of what went down! Congratulations! Very handsome boy indeed!!!” Shayla announced her pregnancy on Instagram in August 2024, just after he sister, Skyla Brae, welcomed a daughter, Mary Lou’s first grandchild. During Skyla’s pregnancy, Mary Lou shared her excitement with People. She said, “I’m going to be a LouLou,” she declared. “I don’t want to be a Mimi, a Gigi, or a Nana. A LouLou!” Mary Lou added, “I’m just going to be spoiling the heck out of them,” she said. “Which I did not do to my kids! So I’ll spoil them, and when they come over I’ll just play with them, hide and seek, all of it. It’s going to be LouLou’s time!” Mary Lou Retton Came Back From A Terrifying Health Scare In October 2023, the Olympic gold medalist nearly died from a dangerous battle with pneumonia. She told People in July 2024 that her girls prepared to say goodbye to Mary Lou as she lay intubated in the intensive care unit. “They prayed over me, and McKenna said, ‘Mommy, it’s OK, you can go.’ I didn’t have much of a relationship with my mother, but I can’t imagine what that was like, to watch their mom on her deathbed,” she said. But now, Mary Lou is well and looking forward to all that LouLou time. This story’s featured image is by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images. The post Mary Lou Retton Celebrates Huge Family Milestone A Year After Nearly Losing Her Life appeared first on InspireMore.

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