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Democrats Push Forward Relief Package, Stimulus Checks Congressional Democrats are pushing the $1.9 trillion package, including stimulus checks, extended unemployment benefits and monthly payments to parents, ahead before pandemic protections expire. Republicans say it’s too expensive. Orion Donovan-Smith, The Spokesman-Review   |   February 16, 2021   |  Analysis (TNS) — With the impeachment trial complete, the focus of Congress is squ...

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Impeachment. The second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is scheduled to begin tomorrow. While some of the trial’s logistics remain unclear, both Senate Democrats and Republicans expect the trial to be shorter than last year’s, which lasted three weeks. The Senate will accommodate a request from one of Trumps impeachment attorneys, David Schoen, to pause the trial during the Jewish Sabbath, which would mean the trial ...

On Friday, the House passed Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill without a single Republican vote – but, last December House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) promised that “I am not bringing any more bills that are not bipartisan.”

By Craig Bannister | February 8, 2021 | 11:10am EST Pres. Joe Biden (Screenshot) Now that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has gotten her “total game‑changer: a new President and a vaccine” after refusing to compromise on a COVID-19 relief bill while Donald Trump was president, President Joe Biden now says there’s not “a second to waste” passing such a measure. On Monday, Pres. Biden expressed the urgency in a Tweet: “We don’t have a seco...

Nearly three weeks into office, President Joe Biden is trying to do what he knows how to do best — connect with average Americans, letting them know he understands their suffering and offering words of comfort.

Nearly three weeks into office, President Joe Biden is trying to do what he knows how to do best -- connect with average Americans, letting them know he understands their suffering and offering words of comfort. But instead of doing so quietly on the campaign trail, he's now using those skills to win a different kind of campaign -- to sell his massive Covid-19 relief package to the American people.

After losing committee assignments, Marjorie Taylor Greene says she has been ‘freed’ to push the GOP further right Mike DeBonis, Paul Kane Replay Video UP NEXT A fiery Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) declared Friday that the House’s decision to remove her from her committee assignments has liberated her to build a political network aimed at supporting former president Donald Trump and pushing the GOP further to the right. Greene’s comments during a 20-minute ne...

The president suggests further negotiations with Republicans would likely delay critical relief.

The president has been pushing aggressively for Congress to pass economic relief.