One of the surprising obstacles to President Joe Biden's infrastructure and tax legislation is that a contingent of Democrats in Congress — particularly lawmakers from New York — want the deal to restore a tax provision sharply curtailed by the GOP in 2017 that is, for the most part, a huge tax cut for wealthy households.

On Wednesday, Vox broke down the debate over the future of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction — which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and a number of Democrats from New York and other high-cost states insist is critical.

Donald Trump has been widely credited with bringing white working-class voters to the polls, but there are some problems with that analysis.

The first problem is there's no universally accepted definition of "working class," and many surveys measure only broad outlines of voter income and education -- and fail to note those voters backed Republican candidates in previous elections, as well, according to political scientists Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu in a new column for the Washington Post.

On Wednesday, The Daily Beast released an episode of the "Fever Dreams" podcast in which Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng interviewed Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly about the ways that Capitol rioters have been caught by federal authorities.

One of the key takeaways, Reilly told them, is that many of the rioters have either outed themselves by mistake, or been ratted out by girlfriends, other loved ones, or just random people in their current or past lives.