President Joe Biden is set to meet Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed spending about one-third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking in coronavirus aid, though congressional Democrats are poised to move ahead without Republican support.
More than a sweeping national rescue plan, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package presents a first political test – of his new administration, of Democratic control of Congress and of the role of Republicans in a post-Trump political landscape.
In one of the first acts of his new administration, President Joe Biden extended the federal eviction and foreclosure moratorium though March 31 as he prepares to ask Congress for an additional extension through September.
Biden returns to the White House today as president a dozen years later with the economy battered and shaken by a pandemic. But this time is different – and it could reset the nation’s politics if Biden and Democrats can count on a level of growth not seen in a generation.
President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan Thursday to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic’s prolonged economic fallout.
Housing advocates around the country staked out courthouses and held rallies Wednesday, calling on the incoming Biden administration to extend and strengthen the current federal ban on evictions.
Major figures in the banking and commercial and residential real estate industries roundly condemned Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol Building by supporters of President Donald Trump aimed at halting Congress’ ceremonial affirmation of the 2020 election results.
President-elect Joe Biden swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort Wednesday and his top Capitol Hill allies cut their demands for a $2 trillion-plus measure by more than half in hopes of breaking a months-long logjam on the issue.
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to serve as treasury secretary, a pivotal role in which she would help shape and direct his economic policies, according to a person familiar with the transition plans.
President-elect Joe Biden will inherit a mangled U.S. economy – one that never fully healed from the coronavirus and could suffer again as new infections are climbing.
