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Dash for Cash Is On as Earmarks Return to Washington
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Secret Service Seizes Billions in Fraudulent Covid Relief Payments
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Republicans Draw a ‘Red Line’ on Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
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Could Democrats Blow Up Biden’s Tax Plans?
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McConnell Lays Down a Marker on Infrastructure
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Shockingly Weak Jobs Report Spurs Partisan Clash
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US Incomes Soar on Covid Relief Payments
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Biden Says He’s Willing to Compromise on Major Tax Hike
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Yellen Spooks Investors With Talk of Rate Hikes
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McConnell: ‘Zero’ GOP Support for Biden’s Big Plans
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Biden Cancels Trump Border Wall Projects Funded by Military
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Who Gets Hit by Biden’s Tax Hike on Top Earners
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What’s in Biden’s $1.8 Trillion Family Aid Plan
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Biden Takes a Whack at Tax Perks for the Rich
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Biden to Use $7.4 Billion in Rescue Funds to Hire More Public Health Workers
The White House announced Thursday that it will use $7.4 billion from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan enacted in March to recruit, hire and train public health workers to respond to the...
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Secret Service Seizes Billions in Fraudulent Covid Relief Payments
The Secret Service has helped recover about $2 billion in fraudulent unemployment payments connected to Covid relief efforts, the agency announced Wednesday, and the funds are being returned to state...
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Republicans Draw a ‘Red Line’ on Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
President Joe Biden hosted the top four congressional leaders at the White House Wednesday for a meeting on infrastructure that yielded little progress and showed just how far apart the two sides...
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Inflation Surge Could Be Bad News for Biden’s Spending Plans
Consumer prices rose faster than expected in April, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, sparking new worries about inflation in the U.S. economy. The consumer price index (CPI) increased 0.8% in...
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Could Democrats Blow Up Biden’s Tax Plans?
As President Joe Biden works to court lawmakers and win support for his $4 trillion in tax and spending proposals, most of the speculation has been about whether he can find common ground with...
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Republicans Take Aim at Unemployment Benefits
The political war over unemployment benefits continued Tuesday as a group of 10 GOP senators led by Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas introduced a bill that would phase out supplemental unemployment...
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Deficit Reaches $1.9 Trillion Over First Seven Months of Year: CBO
The federal government ran a $225 billion deficit in April, bringing the total deficit for the first seven months of fiscal year 2021 to $1.9 trillion, according to estimates from the Congressional...
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States Line Up for $350 Billion in Federal Aid
The U.S Treasury on Monday began to accept applications from state and local governments for the use of $350 billion in federal aid, money that was made available as part of the $1.9 trillion...