President-elect Joe Biden said Friday he expects the Democrat-controlled Congress to “raise the odds of prompt action” in approving a $2,000 stimulus as well as increasing the minimum wage to $15 an...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) excoriated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday for refusing to agree to a stimulus package to help Americans and small businesses because she...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told Fox Business’s “Varney and Company” on Tuesday that while he supports giving stimulus money to the people who have lost their jobs, small businesses, and schools, he...
President Donald Trump said he wants to pass a second stimulus for the American people, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is standing in the way of that.
When a deal is reached on more COVID relief funding, China will pay for it, President Donald Trump said Thursday, adding that he wants to go above $1.8 trillion, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)...
In an unusual turn of events, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ran into criticism from CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday over her refusal to reach a compromise COVID relief package with the Trump White...
"...it's not a coronavirus bill as much as it is an effort by the Speaker and her colleagues to rewrite the rules for American society," Sen. John Kennedy said on Sunday.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group that studies and analyzes the nation’s growing deft and deficit, now projects the national debt – currently siting at more than $23...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended the inclusion of $25 million in funding for the Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C., in the stimulus package under consideration by Congress,...
“For small and medium sized businesses, for hardworking individuals, we are going to recommend to the president that we allow the delay and that they don’t have to pay an interest or penalty on that,”...
There are numerous principles and processes about which politicians often are ignorant -- often, willfully ignorant. Economics and the US Constitution are two, and there appears to be possibility they'll...
In an interview with liberal economist Jeffrey Sachs for Meet the Press's Press Pass segment on Sunday, moderator David Gregory worried about skepticism of big government: "...a lot of it has to do with...
CNN's Soledad O'Brien called the stimulus bill a "big thing" that President Obama accomplished and adding that police officers and firefighters kept their jobs because of it. "f the stimulus hadn't been...
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin pleaded with President Obama to tell voters: "'I am doubling down on what I did.' He didn't do enough on the stimulus. He didn't do...
President Obama's new Chief of Staff Jack Lew appeared on the Charlie Rose show on August 8th 2011 and defended the stimulus package. He said "it was a pretty effective package" and there are "millions...