Budget Battles
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What Biden’s Pick of Yellen Means for the Economy and Stimulus
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Trump Threatens Veto of Defense Bill
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Virus Surge Could Wallop the Economy Again
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Mnuchin Pulls Plug on Emergency Covid-Relief Programs
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250,000 Dead. Where Are Trump, Pelosi and McConnell?
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Top CEOs Call for Covid Relief, Mask Mandate
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Biden Warns 'More People May Die' if Trump Refuses to Coordinate
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250,000 Dead. Where Are Trump and Congress?
President Trump had no public events scheduled for Wednesday. It was the same on Tuesday, when The Washington Post’s Philip Bump noted that the president’s public calendar has been empty for 10 of...
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Fauci Urges Covid Response Sharply Different From Trump's
The United States reported 166,045 new Covid-19 cases and 995 more virus-related deaths on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The nation has now seen more than 100,000 new...
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Angry at Vaccine Makers, Trump Pushes Plan to Lower Drug Prices
By Michael RaineyPresident Trump is angry that Pfizer and Moderna announced promising results for their Covid-19 vaccines after the election, The Washington Post’s Paige Winfield Cunningham reports , and is now...
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Biden Warns 'More People May Die' if Trump Refuses to Coordinate
By Michael RaineyPresident-elect Joe Biden on Monday called for greater cooperation from the Trump White House in the effort to plan the distribution of vaccines for Covid-19 in the coming weeks and months. “They say...
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Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Nearly 95% Effective, Trials Show
Biotech company Moderna announced Monday that its experimental coronavirus vaccine was 94.5% effective, according to preliminary trial data. It’s the second announcement of a promising vaccine...
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Trump Touts Covid Response as Cases Surge to New Highs
President Donald Trump on Friday broke a week-long public silence, appearing in the White House Rose Garden to tout his administration’s pandemic response even as the coronavirus rages across the...
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With Trump on Sidelines, It's Now Pelosi vs. McConnell on Coronavirus Stimulus
The players in the coronavirus stimulus negotiations may be changing, but the stalemate remains the same. The Trump administration is reportedly stepping back from the talks, leaving it to Senate...
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We’re Entering ‘Covid Hell’
The Covid-19 pandemic is raging across the United States, and the numbers are simply staggering: New cases have topped 100,000 a day for seven straight days as of Tuesday, with an average of 119,000...
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Supreme Court Signals Support for the ACA
By Michael RaineyThe Supreme Court heard arguments in a Republican challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act Tuesday, and while we won’t know the court’s ruling until next spring, most observers...
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Biden Warns of ‘Dark Winter,’ Urges Americans to Wear Masks as Covid Cases Top 10 Million
President-elect Joe Biden made clear Monday what he sees as Job. 1: addressing the coronavirus pandemic that just reached a new milestone, topping 10 million confirmed cases. After a victory speech...
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Mnuchin: Relief Bill Will Be ‘Difficult’ Before Election
In case it wasn’t already clear that a new coronavirus relief bill probably isn’t coming before the election, just take a look at what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who has been negotiating the...
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McConnell Plans Vote on Narrow Relief Package. Trump Says, ‘Go Big or Go Home!!!’
As the stalemate over another coronavirus relief package continues, these three things all happened on Tuesday: • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that the Senate will take up...
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Trump Faces a GOP Revolt Over Stimulus
The faint hopes that were raised last week for another coronavirus relief package faded very quickly, as congressional Republicans and Democrats both rejected a $1.8 trillion White House proposal,...
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Trump Approves $1.8 Trillion Stimulus Offer to Pelosi
He calls her a “nut job.” She questions his mental health. Together, they have to work out a roughly $2 trillion package to rescue the economy. It might sound like a pitch for the worst rom-com ever...
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Trump’s $8 Billion Plan to Send Drug Discount Cards to Seniors
By Michael RaineyPresident Trump announced two weeks ago a surprise plan to send $200 drug-discount cards to 39 million Medicare beneficiaries, and Politico reports Thursday that officials are scrambling to execute...