Biden expected to include new child benefit in major new stimulus proposal
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to include a significant new benefit for children in poor and middle class households in the coronavirus relief package he...
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden said Friday he is assembling a multitrillion-dollar relief package that would boost stimulus payments for Americans to $2,000, extend unemployment...
Congressional Democratic leaders accused Republicans of refusing to confront the dramatically worsening coronavirus pandemic. In the last 10 days, 1 million new people have tested...
The decision to proceed with President Donald Trump's budget for the 2022 fiscal year has rankled and surprised several career staffers given Biden's victory in...
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers return to Washington on Monday for Congress's lame-duck session confronting a number of major problems but lacking clear signals from President Donald...
Lawmakers prepare to return to the Capitol next week for Congress' postelection lame duck session, but the dynamics around economic relief talks that have sputtered...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that a new economic stimulus bill should be completed before the end of the year and will be...
Congress has left town until after the election without passing any new economic or health care relief measures even as the coronavirus pandemic surges and...
WASHINGTON - Prospects for an economic relief package in the next two weeks dimmed markedly on Tuesday after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell revealed that...