COVID-19 relief

The Senate in the early hours of Saturday voted to reduce the weekly unemployment benefit from $400 to $300 a week for recipients through the end of August.

A 46-year-old Wisconsin man pleaded guilty on Tuesday for fraudulently obtaining more than $1.2 million in COVID-19 relief loans, the Justice Department said in a press release. Thomas Smith admitted to lying about payroll expenses for eight different companies in order to receive more than $1.2 million of the relief, his guilty plea said, according […]

House Republican leadership is recommending a “no” vote on a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill spearheaded by Democrats that closely resembles President Joe Biden’s proposed stimulus plan, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said in an email to his caucus on Friday. “Leadership recommends a NO vote,” Scalise wrote in an email obtained by The Hill. The bill, packaged together […]

President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion virus spending bill is one step closer to becoming law. The Senate passed a resolution that would prevent Republicans from blocking the vote. The Senate passed a budget resolution early Friday morning that would block Republicans from filibustering President Biden’s virus spending proposal.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that combines the $2,000 direct payments requested by President Donald Trump with other issues the president backs, including repealing a law that shields big tech companies and a review of voter fraud allegations.

The House of Representatives voted late on Dec. 28 to amend the COVID-19 relief bill to boost direct payments to Americans to $2,000 from $600. A two-thirds majority was required to pass the bill, known as the CASH Act. It passed the Democratic-majority House in a 275–134 vote; the measure now heads to the Republican-majority […]

The House of Representatives and the Senate on Monday passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill following months of negotiations. Congress also passed a $1.4 trillion annual federal spending package to keep the federal government funded for another year. Totaling $2.3 trillion, the year-end government funding package that includes the COVID-19 relief comes to 5,593 pages (pdf), by far the longest […]

We talk to George Seay, the CEO of Annandale Capital, to see what the road to recovery looks like and what the consequences are of the choices we’ve made.

Several GOP leaders in the Senate said they are eyeing an early break and want to allow their colleagues to go on the campaign trail next week, noting that COVID-19 relief measures will not be passed before Election Day despite calls to action on a bill from President Donald Trump.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that he expects talks on a fifth COVID-19 relief bill to resume “in the next month or so.”

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the next round of federal relief to states could hinge on sanctuary city reform