Fewer households will get $1,400 relief checks under the Senate bill, which also reduced supplemental weekly unemployment benefits from $400 to $300.
Author: Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY
GOP congresswoman’s husband, whose truck had Three Percenters decal, says he never heard of armed group before
Illinois state Rep. Chris Miller said he was given the sticker featuring the armed group’s logo by a friend “who said that it represented patriotism.”
Biden says minimum wage increase looks like it’s not ‘going to survive’ as part of COVID-19 relief package
“I put it in, but I don’t think it’s going to survive,” Biden said, though Sen. Bernie Sanders still insists including it is a “moral imperative.”
Texas man charged after storming US Capitol, making death threats against Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and police officer
Miller tweeted “assassinate AOC” hours after posting pictures of himself storming the Capitol. “Next time we bring the guns,” he said in another post.
Live politics updates: Romney, other Republican senators blast GOP colleagues’ ‘egregious ploy to reject electors’
“I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and that is what I will do January 6,” Sen. Murkowski said in a statement.
‘Devastating consequences’: Biden blasts Trump for not signing COVID relief bill before unemployment aid lapses
If Trump doesn’t sign the bill Saturday, it would effectively cut the extension in unemployment aid from 11 to 10 weeks.
Trump suggested naming Sidney Powell as special counsel on election in Oval Office meeting, reports say
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was also at the Oval Office meeting, where the idea of martial law was reportedly raised and shot down.
‘This is all about your healthcare’: Biden says Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to end Affordable Care Act
Biden decried Trump nominating Barrett “before Justice Ginsburg could be laid to rest” and after hundreds of thousands of Americans already voted.
Mnuchin says GOP coronavirus relief package will be released Monday
Fox News host Chris Wallace pressed Mnuchin on why a GOP plan hasn’t been introduced.