Article snippet: The proposal would also rely on revenue from the administration’s previously announced increases in hotel and parking meter fees to fund new initiatives on homelessness and city streets and sidewalks. The head of the IRS, overseeing the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code in three decades, says the average refund in this year’s tax-filing season, $2,833, worked out to be close to last year’s. The announcement came after President Trump told reporters last week that he was pulling his nomination of acting ICE chief Ronald Vitiello for the director’s job. About 60 people moved into the new headquarters earlier this month, the spokeswoman said. The House’s $42.7 billion budget proposal, unveiled Wednesday, would add $218 million more in aid sent to local school districts across Massachusetts. Ground Game Many White House hopefuls have been releasing their fund-raising numbers already — mostly as a show of force for their respective campaigns. But Warren, so far, has been silent. A congressional hearing on online hate turned into a vivid demonstration of the problem when a YouTube livestream was bombarded with racist and anti-Semitic comments. POLITICAL NOTEBOOK Perhaps the most telling poll of the Democratic primary season hasn’t been about the Democratic primary at all, but about the fallout from a 35-year-old racist photo on a yearbook page. The vow came after a testy City Council committee hearing that saw Boston Police Commissio... Link to the full article to read more