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’s annual budget plan calls for roughly $5.5 trillion in tax increases over the next decade to offset proposed spending increases — including a massive 5.2% federal worker pay raise.
The package, to be announced later Thursday, is headed for certain defeat in the Republican-held House of Representatives and comes as the GOP demands spending cuts without new taxes in a standoff with Biden over raising the federal debt ceiling later this year.
"This is the start of a healthy dialogue," White House budget director Shalanda Young told news hounds on a morning conference call.
"We will see tax policies here that say to the richest Americans and the largest corporations ... that you have to begin to pay your fair share," she said.
But Young faced a grilling from journalists over criticism that hiking taxes could hurt the economy.
"Republicans will look at the $5.5 trillion in tax increases in this plan and say that those will hurt growth," one said. "What would your response be on that growth question?"
Young said the changes would ensure that "we can continue to invest in working families in this country and we can continue to make sure the middle class can prosper all while being fiscally responsible, bringing down the deficit by nearly $3 trillion."