Budget Battles
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Biden Calls for Urgent Action on $900B Stimulus Deal
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Stimulus Deal Gains Steam as McConnell, Pelosi Talk
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Pelosi and Schumer Make a Big Concession on Stimulus
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Senators Float $908 Billion Stimulus Compromise
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What Biden’s New Economic Team Says About His Agenda
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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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Biden Calls for Urgent Action on $900 Billion Stimulus Deal
President-elect Joe Biden on Friday called for “urgent action” on a coronavirus-relief package, indicating that lawmakers should pass a bipartisan compromise package as a “down payment” toward...
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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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Covid vs. the Economy: What Mattered to Voters
It’s the pandemic, stupid. That play on James Carville’s famous “It’s the economy, stupid” mantra from Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign was occasionally repeated in media coverage of the...
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Election Results Signal Less Stimulus, More Gridlock
By Michael RaineyAlthough the final numbers aren’t in yet, it looks like the 2020 election will deliver a divided Congress to whichever party claims the White House. Democratic hopes for a “blue wave” fell by the...
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Birx Contradicts Trump, Warns Pandemic Entering ‘Most Deadly Phase’
Dr. Deborah Birx, a top White House adviser on the coronavirus task force, warned Monday that the pandemic is entering its “most concerning and most deadly phase” and called for “much more aggressive...
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Judge Blocks ‘Public Charge’ Rule for Immigrants
By Michael RaineyA federal judge has halted an effort by the Trump administration to deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid and housing assistance. U.S. District Judge...
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Coronavirus Pandemic Sets New Record
The United States keeps setting troubling Covid-19 records. The number of daily cases hit a new high of 88,521 on Thursday, up nearly 83% over the last month, and the weekly case count rose to 536,...