Divided Senate Passes Biden’s Pandemic Aid Plan
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion stimulus bill passed a deeply divided Senate on Saturday over unanimous Republican opposition, as Democrats pushed through a...
Tag : Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (2020)
What’s in a Vote-a-Rama?
Maybe it’s just a simple matter of physics: The bigger and more hulking the thing is, the heavier and harder it is to move. Or...
Johnson Halts Action on Stimulus Bill With a Demand to Read it Aloud
Asked when the process would end, Senator Mike Braun, Republican of Indiana, observed, “I think that we’re just a captive of the time here.” Setting...
Republicans Won Blue-Collar Votes. They’re Not Offering Much in Return.
As the election returns rolled in showing President Donald J. Trump winning strong support from blue-collar voters in November while suffering historic losses in suburbs...
Democrats Narrow Stimulus Payments as Biden Works to Keep Aid Plan on Track
The legislation, which Democrats hope to push through the Senate by the weekend, remains among the largest federal relief packages in modern American history. It...
Empty Office Buildings Squeeze City Budgets as Property Values Fall
WASHINGTON — At a meeting with Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen last month, Jeff Williams, the mayor of Arlington, Texas, laid out his grim economic...
After Stimulus, Biden to Tackle Another Politically Tricky Issue: Infrastructure
Mr. Biden campaigned on a sprawling infrastructure agenda, with trillions of dollars invested in transportation, water and sewer lines, and the scaffoldings of an energy...
Why Infrastructure is Next on Biden’s To-Do List
Mr. Biden campaigned on a sprawling infrastructure agenda, with trillions of dollars invested in transportation, water and sewer lines, and the scaffoldings of an energy...
Assessing Claims in the Coronavirus Stimulus Debate
Ahead of the vote on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, lawmakers have offered an array of misleading claims to promote their position on the...
Give Biden a Chance? On Covid Aid, Some Trump Voters Just Might
Some Republicans share those concerns. Sean Wiley, who voted twice for Mr. Trump and describes himself as a conservative libertarian, said the government needed to...