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March 25, 2020

AOC ally pans ‘ridiculous’ Pelosi claim on climate change measure in coronavirus bill

A Green New Deal co-author panned Speaker Nancy Pelosi for including "tiny" airline emissions standards in the House's coronavirus response package, arguing now is not the time for token environmental provisions when Americans' livelihoods are hanging in the balance. 

March 25, 2020

Liz Peek: Nancy Pelosi's coronavirus blunder – holding up aid package her fourth major error

On the cusp of the Senate achieving a gigantic bipartisan deal to stave off a deep recession, the House speaker unexpectedly tossed in a roadblock, throwing the country and financial markets into a tailspin. 

March 25, 2020

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito: Congress providing 'wartime funding' to defeat COVID-19

The stimulus package Congress is providing to the American people is considered "wartime funding" in the battle against the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore-Capito explained Wednesday.

March 25, 2020

White House, Senate reach late-night deal on massive $2T coronavirus stimulus package

The White House and Senate leaders reached a deal shortly after midnight on a massive $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, capping off days of heated negotiations that had nearly been derailed by last-minute demands from House Democrats.

March 24, 2020

Sen. John Barrasso: Pelosi, Schumer 'wasting time that we as a nation do not have' 

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told "Special Report" on Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are "wasting time that we as a nation do not have" as Congress continues to negotiate a coronavirus emergency relief bill.

March 24, 2020

CNN, MSNBC fail to ask Nancy Pelosi about daughter's controversial Rand Paul tweet

CNN and MSNBC failed to ask House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., about her daughter’s now-removed tweet that appeared to endorse the 2017 assault of Sen. Rand Paul during interviews Tuesday.

March 24, 2020

Mark Cuban: Nation will face 'social unrest' if money doesn't go out quickly to struggling Americans

The nation will face "social unrest" if money doesn't go out to Americans struggling under the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban said Tuesday.

March 24, 2020

John Cornyn: 'Shameful' for Dems to use coronavirus relief bill for political 'leverage'

It is "shameful" for House Democrats to use leverage on a proposed coronavirus (COVID-19) stimulus bill, Texas Sen. John Cornyn stated Tuesday.

March 24, 2020

What’s in Democrats’ coronavirus bill? Arts funding, union help and more

The bill includes a number of provisions with questionable relevance to the pandemic which has killed more than 17,000 worldwide and sickened more than 390,000. 

March 23, 2020

House Dems' emergency coronavirus stimulus bill includes $35M for Kennedy Center

House Democrats are being criticized on Monday for allotting expenses in their proposal of an emergency stimulus bill that has nothing to do with the coronavirus outbreak, including $35 million meant for the John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts in Washington D.C.