Biden Administration

The Remote and Mobile Worker Relief Act would set a 30-day in-state threshold before states could levy income taxes on nonresident workers.

A senior White House economic aide said the decision on selecting the next central bank chief will come after a thorough “process.”

Public finance groups hope that the Biden administration will show the same support for tax-exempt bonds that House Democrats do.

A deep dive into how President Biden's plans will affect infrastructure spending, ESG, tax-exempt munis and the municipal bond market at large.

The report found that the White House Office of Management and Budget played a key role in prodding HUD to add additional requirements for Puerto Rico to access the disaster aid.

President Joe Biden, who has an opportunity to reshape the leadership of the Federal Reserve over the next 10 months, is being urged by activists to make potentially significant changes at the U.S. central bank.

After statehood, Puerto Rico's legacy bonds would likely retain their current status, but analysts are mixed on how the market would receive new debt.

Indiana's newly adopted budget, with rosier revenue projections and a looming infusion of federal relief funds, will also boost infrastructure spending.

There’s not much difference in the criteria S&P Global uses to rate general obligation debt issued by cities and GO debt issued by states.

The bonds would include a subsidy rate of 28% and would be exempt from sequestration.

The new director will be familiar with pay-to-play enforcement and public accounting fraud, which are important in the muni space.

Though Republicans and Democrats are far apart on the price tag, there is agreement on the need to invest in physical infrastructure and the need to pay for it.

Wyden said his clean energy bill would replace a hodgepodge of 40 temporary tax credits.

In the Southeast, almost $71 billion of American Relief Plan funds will be dispersed to state and local governments.

Municipal bonds have a direct effect on the social and cultural character of cities, metropolitan areas, counties, and states. Munis and the initiatives they support such as public education, housing subsidies, public transit systems, and more, can often be linked to local or regional politics. Join Lynne Funk, Executive Editor at The Bond Buyer and Destin Jenkins, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago as they explore how municipal bond mismanagement can have contrasting influences on the different ethnic groups in our cities.

Gretchen Sierra Zorita will serve as deputy director for Puerto Rico and the Territories in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

Municipal bonds, issued by state and local governments, finance infrastructure investment and should be the foundation of any modernization package.

Roddy Devlin, a partner at Nixon Peabody, explores President Biden's $2.3 trillion bill, which he says "dwarfs anything we've seen for decades." Paul Burton hosts. (23 minutes)

OMB Acting Director Shalandra Young described the summary as “the administration’s proposal for topline FY 2022 discretionary funding.”

The state says the Centers for Disease Control's anti-COVID-19 safety protocols for the cruise ship industry are illegally burdensome and exceed its authority.