Democrats have touted the $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief bill that U.S. President Joe Biden just signed into law as one of the most popular bills in decades, calling it a bold measure for people across the country that would significantly cut poverty and boost recove...
The relief legislation, aimed at battling the killer virus and nursing the staggered economy back to health, will provide direct payments of up to $1,400 to most Americans. There’s also money for COVID-19 vaccines and testing, aid to state and local governments, help for schools ...
The Democrats' goal is to have COVID-19 relief approved by mid-March, when extra unemployment assistance and other pandemic aid expires. The Senate, which Democrats control with a tie-breaking vote from the vice president, will consider the bill next. A look at some highlights of...
Nearly as important as what's in Sunday's COVID-19 aid package is what's not. Republicans succeeded in preventing Democrats from including hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out blue state pension funds, whose fiscal problems predate the pandemic. Taxpayers in Texas shouldn't have to pay...
on that until agreement to pass the bill is reached, rather than repeat what happened last time, when what was supposed to be a brief sitting turned into a marathon, day-long negotiating session behind the scenes. MPs finally approved the emergency aid bill in the wee hours of the...
RELATED:Lawmakers press Trump on relief bill as jobless aid expires His foot-dragging resulted in a lapse in unemployment benefits for millions struggling to make ends meet and threatened a government shutdown in the midst of a pandemic. But signing the bill into law prevents another crisis of ...
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell’s Covid-19 relief bill will be ‘phony’ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) says, meaning everyday, working class American will not receive the necessary pandemic assistance through the Senate proposal, in his view. Passing a vital, robust coronavirus p...
The bill also provides $25 billion for relief for small and mid-sized restaurants, which have suffered significantly during the pandemic. The measure expands eligibility for subsidies to purchase health insurance to people of all incomes under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a provision that was ...
on that until agreement to pass the bill is reached, rather than repeat what happened last time, when what was supposed to be a brief sitting turned into a marathon, day-long negotiating session behind the scenes. MPs finally approved the emergency aid bill in the wee hours of the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With time running out, lawmakers on Sunday closed in on a proposed COVID-19 relief bill that would provide roughly $300 in extra federal weekly unemployment benefits but not another round of $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans, leaving that issue for...