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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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Ahead of White House Meetings, McConnell Lays Down a Marker on Infrastructure
Just how serious is President Joe Biden about trying to reach in infrastructure deal with Republicans? Politico this morning called that “the D.C. guessing game du jour,” and anyone playing along...
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Surprisingly Weak Jobs Report Spurs Partisan Clash
The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in April, an impressive number in ordinary times but a huge disappointment for forecasters expecting to see about 1 million new jobs during the month as the...
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U.S. Postal Service Narrows Quarterly Loss, Presses Ahead With Overhaul
The U.S. Postal Service on Friday reported a second-quarter loss of $1.7 billion, compared to loss of $1.9 billion in the same period a year earlier. The results, adjusted to exclude non-cash workers...
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Covid Relief Sends US Incomes to Record High
Covid relief measures enacted by Congress boosted personal incomes by $1.6 trillion through direct payments between April 2020 and March 2021. Add in the positive economic effects of all Covid relief...
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Biden Wants Corporate Tax Rate Between 25% and 28%
President Joe Biden said earlier this week that he is open to compromise on his plan to raise the corporate tax rate, and on Thursday cited a range of rates he would be willing to accept: between 25...