Budget Battles
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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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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 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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Federal Officials Release Plan to Distribute Coronavirus Vaccine
By The Fiscal Times StaffThe federal government plans to being distributing a vaccine within 24 hours of approval by the Food and Drug administration, Trump administration health officials said Wednesday. In an 11-page...
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Trump Urges GOP to Go for ‘Much Higher Numbers’ on Covid Relief
Maybe a coronavirus relief deal isn’t dead yet. While talks haven’t resumed, pressure is building — and now it’s coming from the White House, too. After months of stalemate, President Trump on...
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Trump Says Health Care Plan Is Ready, but White House Has No Details
By Michael RaineyPresident Trump said Tuesday that his long-promised replacement for the Affordable Care Act is ready to go. “I have it all ready, and it’s a much better plan for you,” Trump told an audience member...
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House Moderates Pitch $1.5 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Plan
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Tuesday that the House, just back in session after its summer recess, won’t leave for the November elections until a deal is reached on another coronavirus relief...
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More Uninsured Last Year, Even as Poverty Shrank to Record Low
By Michael RaineyNearly 30 million people lacked health insurance at some point in 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday, an increase of about 1 million from the year before. The number of uninsured increased for...