Government Spending

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced a grant program to help keep restaurants and stores afloat during the winter months.

As Congress discusses spending provisions in order to prevent a government shutdown next month, a lack of funding for farm aid has become a sticking point for Republicans.

Social Security is also a program that's in flux, and roughly 165 million Americans are going to see something happen in 2021 that hasn't happened since before they were born.

President Trump pledged tens of billions of dollars’ worth of additional aid on Thursday to help distressed farmers that have suffered throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

New research explores link between family formation and eligibility for social welfare programs.

In July thousands of business loan fraud reports were filed, study shows.

It's tough to get your arms around this: The party of "working people" has just rejected more government help for working people.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has laid out a multitrillion-dollar spending plan that would raise taxes by $3.4 trillion over the next decade.

Seven people were charged with laundering $2.1 million in money linked to crimes – including more than $300,000 in illegally-obtained coronavirus relief money through a North Carolina casino.

The unrest that besieged Kenosha, Wis., for several days following the police shooting of a Black man last month resulted in $50 million in damage to buildings and businesses, officials said. 

As art of the CARES Act, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program is a bipartisan effort to ensure that Americans who lose their jobs for COVID-19 related reasons can survive economically.

It is increasingly likely that all Congress will do before the election is pass legislation to avoid a federal shutdown

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Wednesday said he is "trying to be a voice" for struggling small business owners by supporting a Senate bill known as the RESTART Act.

White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow on Tuesday broke down the contents of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's coronavirus relief package.

A grand jury has indicted a Massachusetts man who allegedly faked his own death to avoid prosecution for fraudulently seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in forgivable loans intended for businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, while his accomplice has agreed to plead guilty in connection with the alleged crime, officials recently announced.

The White House is asking government agencies to disclose details of any funding that supports China or counters its global influence.

Watchdog says agency needs more than $2 billion.

Amtrak will furlough more than 2,000 workers as a result of the steep decline in travel demand from the coronavirus pandemic.

The Treasury Department said it has reclaimed a majority of the more than $1 billion worth of economic impact payments that were sent to dead people.

Democrats were FOR the payroll tax cut (under Obama) before they were against it (under Trump).