ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to enact a new job-creation bill, demanding that it include tax breaks for small business hiring and for people who make their homes more energy efficient.
Neither one of those Obama-backed proposals was included in a jobs bill passed by the House in December. That $174 billion stimulus package is now before the Senate, where it faces a tougher road, in part because it is financed with deficit spending.
Employing us-against-them populist rhetoric on trip to Ohio Friday, Obama said in remarks prepared for a town hall audience that he “will never stop fighting” for an economy that works not just for the fortunate, but the hardworking as well.
