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President Donald Trump signed the massive $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law Sunday night, averting a government shutdown that was set to begin on Tuesday, and extending billions of dollars in coronavirus aid to millions. Trump’s signature of the $900 billion Covid relief package extends unemployment benefits for millions of jobless

President Donald Trump’s dark mood has been worsening — and the country is suffering his wrath. Furious at Senate Republican leaders for acknowledging he lost to President-elect Joe Biden, Trump has so far rejected the coronavirus stimulus package they negotiated with Democrats and his own administration, leaving jobless benefits to lapse for millions of Americans

On Christmas Eve, staff at Mar-a-Lago made preparations for President Donald Trump to sign the Covid-19 relief package and government funding bill, a holiday gift of relief to millions of Americans suffering in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. But the plan was scrapped at the last minute, two sources with knowledge of the circumstances

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday expressed concern that the worst may still come in America’s battle against Covid-19, agreeing with President-elect Joe Biden’s recent assessment that the “darkest days” in fighting the virus lie ahead. “And the reason I’m concerned and my colleagues in public health are concerned also is that we very well might

President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign a Covid-19 stimulus and government spending package has left small business support, jobless benefits and relief checks for millions of Americans in limbo — all while raising the prospect of a government shutdown if Trump doesn’t sign the legislation before Monday evening. Trump upended weeks of careful negotiations last

When Congress met to tally the results of the 2004 presidential election, then-Sen. Barbara Boxer stood alone on the Senate floor to object to President George W. Bush’s reelection victory in Ohio over Democrat John Kerry, forcing the House and Senate to vote for only the second time in a century on whether to reject

Republican Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign a $900 billion relief package Congress passed last week and allow critical benefits to lapse for millions of jobless Americans “shows the chaos of the whole thing.” Kinzinger is one of several members of the President’s party urging him to sign

Millions of jobless gig-workers and independent contractors, as well as long-term unemployed Americans, are set to lose their unemployment benefits after this weekend since President Donald Trump hasn’t signed the $900 billion relief package Congress passed last week. What’s more, all laid-off workers will likely lose a week of the $300 federal boost to payments

This has been a disastrous lame duck period. Although there are always concerns about what may happen in the months between a presidential election and inauguration, the last few weeks have lived up to our worst expectations. The transition period used to be even longer. Until the 20th Amendment was ratified in 1933, this gap

President Donald Trump’s waffling over the $900 billion Covid relief package, which he has yet to sign, is leaving his fellow Republicans in Georgia in a tough spot as they fight to maintain control of the US Senate. GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler — who are running as Trump loyalists — have touted

In early December, we fact–checked misleading attack ads from both Democrats and Republicans in the two Georgia runoff elections that will determine control of the US Senate. Since then, Republicans have run some additional misleading ads attacking both Democratic candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Here’s a breakdown of two of these ads. Warnock’s comment

Millions of jobless gig-workers and independent contractors, as well as long-term unemployed Americans, will lose their unemployment benefits after this weekend if President Donald Trump doesn’t sign the $900 billion relief package Congress passed earlier this week. What’s more, all laid-off workers could lose a week of the $300 federal boost to payments if the

A day before unemployment benefits for millions of Americans were set to expire, President Donald Trump had a different insult in mind: his former-model wife has yet to appear on the cover of a fashion magazine as first lady. “Fake news!” he complained on Twitter from Palm Beach, concerned for Melania’s social station on Christmas

Though Congress has passed a $900 billion Covid relief package, millions of Americans are in danger of losing important benefits just after the holidays if President Donald Trump continues to refuse to sign the bill. The legislation would extend two pandemic unemployment programs and provide the jobless with a $300 weekly federal boost through mid-March.

For Christmas this year, Washington is giving the country more pain. Perhaps it is fitting that in the worst year in memory, the surprise prospect of a government shutdown and delayed economic relief hangs over holiday celebrations already made less merry by the pandemic. Maybe nothing better could be expected in a year that saw

The only woman on the federal death row may see her execution date pushed to when the administration of President-elect Joe Biden takes over, after a federal judge said Thursday the Department of Justice could not yet reset the date. Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed on December 8 after she was convicted in

President-elect Joe Biden is leaning on familiar faces and old allies from his decades in public life as he builds an administration that will immediately confront a storm of extraordinary interlocking crises. With less than a month until the inauguration, Biden is walking a political tightrope — buffeted by competing demands from inside an increasingly