GOP wooed on stimulus bill
In particular, Jenkins said taxpayer funds were being wasted by the president’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill. “Well, in the last few weeks, we’ve heard about plenty of ‘stimulus’ waste,” she said. “Taxpayer dollars earmarked for a homeless program in a town with no homeless ...
The Senate failed Thursday to advance a Republican coronavirus stimulus plan, the latest blow to stalled efforts to pass another package to mitigate the pandemic’s damage. CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports. Thu, Sep 10 20201:30 PM EDTwatch now watch now VIDEO15:46 Watch CNBC's full interview wi...
“The bottom line is this — a preliminary injunction that stands no meaningful prospect of ever being enforced, as the Secretary is unlikely to be in a position to recoup funds while this suit is pending, adds nothing by way of clarity,” wrote Cole, a Trump appointee on the ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Monday that would require Wisconsin prisoners to spend their COVID-19 stimulus dollars on restitution.
scared to death about what was going to happen. The so-called stimulus bill actually outperformed expectations, not underperformed, but it wasn't big enough to lift this whole economy out of the hole it was in. The auto restructuring is working. And I think he'll be able to point to...
Barnett, who was mayor during the Obama administration's efforts to stimulate the economy after the Great Recession, said he hopes the Biden administration has learned from that stimulus rollout. "The recovery was pretty anemic," he said of the 2009 effort. But this time, "there has been a...
This source said the national committee did not ask the Tennessee party to retract their statement, but effectively put them on notice for the future. Monday, Tennessee GOP spokesman Bill Hobbs penned a press release attacking Obama on Israel, using his Muslim-sounding middle name in the proces...
Cutting it only adds to the nation's rising debt load at a time when conservatives are wary of any new spending. Some Republicans also see it as an insufficient response to millions of out-of-work Americans. This would be the fifth virus aid package, after the $2.2 trillion bill passed ...
On Monday, Congressional Republican leaders put out a list of what they call wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the nearly $900 billion stimulus bill that is being debated: