Congress

With the Senate Democrats' razor-thin majority in the chamber up for grabs in next year's midterm elections, the race between the Democratic and GOP Senate reelection arms is already igniting.

Millions of Americans who collected unemployment aid last year got a welcome tax break in President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan.

In a 399-14 vote, the House passed a bill extending Covid-19 bankruptcy relief provisions originally passed in the CARES Act until March 27, 2022. 

The House GOP voted to reverse a ban on earmarks within their caucus Wednesday, as Democrats prep to bring the practice back to Congress. 

A group of progressive Democrats is renewing their push for "Medicare-for-all" this week, using the coronavirus pandemic to make the case for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system. 

The extra $300-a-week unemployment benefit included in President Biden's coronavirus relief plan may not arrive until mid-April or later.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., slammed President Biden's reported tax hike proposal on Wednesday arguing that it would hurt wages and jobs.

Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill and proposed $4 trillion infrastructure package puts the U.S. on tap for spending $10 trillion this year.

The biggest U.S. banks are beginning to deliver stimulus checks to eligible Americans Wednesday morning following some criticism over the timing of the third round of direct cash payments. 

Democratic political strategist Brad Bannon said raising taxes is always “troublesome politically” but that the Biden administration was betting on two things: raising the taxes on the wealthy would only affect “2 or 3% of voters” and that if by next fall, midterm election season, the economy has recovered from the pandemic, “Americans will be so grateful they’ll overlook the tax issue."