Hopefully the compromise is raising the cap rather than eliminating it. There are other issues involved here. The blue states with generous social benefits may be more reluctant to continue them if the cap isn’t raised. Blue states are already subsidizing the red states who tax their wealthy at much lesser amounts and have crappy services.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/10/sends-terrible-terrible-message-sanders-rejects-top-dems-push-big-tax-break-rich

Sen. Bernie Sanders made clear in an interview Sunday that he opposes the push by top Democrats to restore a tax deduction that overwhelmingly benefited the richest households in the U.S., saying such an effort “sends a terrible, terrible message” at a time of crippling economic pain for poor and working-class people.

“You have got to make it clear which side you are on—and you can’t be on the side of the wealthy and powerful if you’re going to really fight for working families,” Sanders (I-Vt.), the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said in an appearance on “Axios on HBO.”

The tax break in question is known as the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which former President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers capped at $10,000 as part of their 2017 tax law. While the GOP tax measure was highly regressive—delivering the bulk of its benefits to the rich and large corporations—the SALT cap was “one of the few aspects of the Trump bill that actually promoted tax progressivity,” as the Washington Post pointed out last month.

According to a recent analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), 62% of the benefits of repealing the SALT cap would go to the richest 1% and 86% of the benefits would go to the top 5%. ITEP estimated that temporarily suspending the cap would cost more than $90 billion in just one year.

“There is no state where this is a primarily middle-class issue,” the organization found. “In every state and the District of Columbia, more than half of the benefits would go to the richest 5% of taxpayers. In all but six states, more than half of the benefits would go to the richest 1%.

Nonetheless, prominent Democrats from blue states—which were disproportionately impacted by the SALT cap—are demanding full restoration of the tax break in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package, disingenuously characterizing the cap as a major burden on the middle class.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-restores-transgender-health-protections/

The U.S. will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope of legal rights in sensitive situations involving medical care.

The action by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also protect gay and transgender people. The Trump administration had defined “sex” to mean gender assigned at birth, thereby excluding transgender people from the law’s umbrella of protection.

“Fear of discrimination can lead individuals to forgo care, which can have serious negative health consequences,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “Everyone — including LGBTQ people — should be able to access health care, free from discrimination or interference, period.”

Becerra said the Biden administration policy will bring HHS into line with a landmark Supreme Court decision last year in a workplace discrimination case, which established that federal laws against sex discrimination on the job also protect gay and transgender people.

Despite that ruling, the Trump administration proceeded to try to narrow the legal protections against health care discrimination, issuing rules that narrowly defined “sex” as biological gender. A federal judge had blocked those rules from taking effect, although Trump administration officials argued that as a legal matter health care discrimination was a separate issue from the employment case the Supreme Court decided.

Conservatives are following the path of the Republicans.

Meanwhile the recent vote in Scotland gave a clear majority to pro independence parties (SNP and Greens) setting up a clash between the national Conservatives and the SNP over an independence referendum.

Here is a wild guess as to why the Government’s Queen Speech will contain a bill to restrict voting to those who can produce photographic ID. pic.twitter.com/GYCJ8csEHg

— Stewart Wood (@StewartWood) May 10, 2021

FM Nicola Sturgeon's been on the phone with the Prime Minister this afternoon, telling him it's a case of "when – not if" on another Scottish Independence referendum #HeartNews pic.twitter.com/wZDCRPak0M

— Heart Scotland News (@HeartScotNews) May 9, 2021

“All the job gains in April went to men. The number of women employed or looking for work fell by 64,000, a reminder that child-care issues are still in play.” https://t.co/sfFdCNlGJF

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) May 8, 2021

”Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Well, I don’t know about you but I don’t consider ”climate targets” putting us on track for 2,4°C and current policies indicating we’re headed for 2,9°C (excluding most tipping points, feedback-loops etc) to be ”good”.#MindTheGap pic.twitter.com/Pvame8Zvqs

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) May 10, 2021

As CO2 emissions stay in the atmosphere up to 1000years we of course need to look at historic emissions and in context to population and emissions per capita. And developed nation must lead so others can raise their living standards. As I say all the time. pic.twitter.com/pBhcpbtTUr

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) May 8, 2021

Just watched Meet Me in St Louis again a few weeks ago.