Covid Stimulus Bill Heads to the Senate
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s agenda is facing its most consequential test as Democrats prepare to maneuver his $1.9 trillion stimulus package through the evenly divided...
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Democrats Move to Salvage Minimum Wage Hike
If Democrats cannot find a way to include the wage increase in the stimulus measure, the bill could lose support from progressives, although Ms. Pelosi...
Unity Proves Elusive in Democrats’ Fight for $15
Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. If the Democrats have a problem, it’s with the working class. Their support...
Republicans Grapple With Raising the Minimum Wage
WASHINGTON — The policy debate over raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour is the latest fault line between Democrats, who largely support...
Top Senate Official Disqualifies Minimum Wage From Stimulus Plan
WASHINGTON — Democrats suffered a critical defeat in their bid to preserve President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package on Thursday after the Senate’s top rule...
Biden Looks to a Consensus Builder to Heal a Democratic Rift on Trade
WASHINGTON — The negotiations lasted late into the evening, leaving some members of Congress shouting and pounding the table in frustration as they fought over...
In Stimulus Debate, Senate Parliamentarian Holds Broad Sway
During the impeachment proceeding this month, Ms. MacDonough spent hours on the Senate dais, advising Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, as he played...
Why Biden Is Tackling Immigration Now
As Democratic lawmakers unveiled their legislative proposal on Thursday, they framed it as a deliberate rejection of the Trump administration’s approach. Senator Robert Menendez of...
State Lawmakers Defy Governors in a Covid-Era Battle for Power
Partisan warfare over pandemic lockdowns and mask-wearing is on the wane in Washington: A bitter presidential election has been decided, coronavirus cases are plummeting nationally...
On Federal Appeals Courts, a Spike in Partisanship
WASHINGTON — For many decades, there was little evidence of partisan behavior in what can be the most bare-knuckled power play in the federal judicial...