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Byline: OSOBE WABERI, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead University of Ottawa law student Nina Haroune has paid thousands of dollars in rent over the past four months for a [...]

The S.B.A.'s disaster relief program allows for loans of up to $2 million. But now they're capped at $150,000 -- and agency officials are saying little about why. For nearly [...]

The cruelty and ignorance of Trump and his allies are creating another gratuitous disaster. In case you haven't noticed, the coronavirus is still very much with us. Around a thousand [...]

As his top advisers met with Democratic leaders to try to hash out a compromise, President Trump hurled insults at Democrats and mused aloud about short-circuiting the talks and acting [...]

Byline: Jessica Menton, USA TODAY Christopher Bolei is worried about how he'll make ends meet now that the $600 federal unemployment benefit is cut off. In March, Bolei, 63, who [...]

Byline: Charles Lane For Print Use Only. This time, Washington bailed out Main Street. Congress's multitrillion dollar covid-19 legislation contained tens of billions in aid for airlines and other large [...]

Byline: Amy Dru Stanley For Print Use Only. For months, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has been warning of a 'second pandemic' of lawsuits brought by workers and consumers [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Eli Rosenberg House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows made clear in separate interviews Sunday that they [...]

There is little overlap in the initial plans released by Democrats and Republicans for another round of federal aid to address the Covid-19 pandemic. The House Democrats' opening offer, a [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Rachael Bade WASHINGTON -- Negotiations between top White House officials and congressional Democrats on coronavirus relief legislation showed signs of progress on Saturday, after days of [...]

Byline: Allan Sloan Two of the things missing from the increasingly bitter debate about how to handle covid-19's effect on our people, our businesses and our economy are a sense [...]

President Trump and Democrats blamed each other for the lapse of $600-per-week federal unemployment benefits, risking further economic pain and a voter backlash for failing to act. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

Senators Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren criticized a Fed-backed effort to slip a change into the next coronavirus relief package Two Senate Democrats sharply criticized the Federal Reserve's effort to [...]

Byline: Christal Hayes, Nicholas Wu, and Ledyard King, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Millions of Americans are unemployed. Schools across the country are only weeks away from reopening. And cases of [...]

For Print Use Only. It has been slightly more than four months since Congress and President Donald Trump met what was still an incipient coronavirus pandemic with $2.7 trillion worth [...]

Byline: Julie Zauzmer The federal government has refused requests from jurisdictions including D.C. and Maryland to extend a food-stamp program waiver past August. This means that despite the ongoing pandemic, [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Jeff Stein WASHINGTON - The White House and congressional Democrats traded blame on Friday for the expiration of enhanced unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, which [...]

Byline: Adam Jentleson In August 2011, Washington was paralyzed by crisis. Republicans had clawed their way back to relevance by retaking control of the House in the 2010 midterms, while [...]

Congress said borrowers in taxpayer-backed rescue programs had to be from the United States. Wall Street has a workaround. WASHINGTON -- Pacific Investment Management Company runs a hedge fund registered [...]

Republicans want wage replacement instead of an extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits, but technical and political hurdles are in the way. WASHINGTON -- Republicans want to replace a [...]

Senate Republicans forced the chamber to begin moving forward with an extension of unemployment benefits that expire on Friday, but there was no agreement on a measure to do so. [...]

Byline: Seung Min Kim, Erica Werner and Jeff Stein WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans and the Trump administration on Thursday began moving on a temporary extension of expanded unemployment insurance - [...]

Byline: Seung Min Kim, Erica Werner and Jeff Stein WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Thursday began moving on a temporary extension of expanded unemployment insurance - confronting significant pressure to [...]

Byline: Tim Carman After the state of Florida shut down bars and nightclubs for the second time in June, Warren Colazzo didn't sit around complaining about government overreach, even as [...]

A supplement to unemployment benefits is at an end, and Congress is deadlocked over new aid. For some, that means hunger, evictions or bankruptcies. For Sara Gard, the government's safety [...]

Senators in the party are ''all over the lot'' on the pandemic bill as jobless benefits run out and the fate of any legislative deal remains uncertain. WASHINGTON -- When [...]

President Trump signaled that he was not interested in a broad economic recovery package that would have to be negotiated with Democrats, saying he preferred a narrower plan. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein, Seung Min Kim and Rachael Bade WASHINGTON - Negotiations on a new coronavirus relief bill hit an impasse on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, leaving no [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein and Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump called for a quick fix Wednesday to address expiring unemployment benefits and a moratorium on evictions, [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein and Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump called for a quick fix Wednesday to address expiring unemployment benefits and a moratorium on evictions, [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein and Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump called for a quick fix Wednesday to address expiring unemployment benefits and a moratorium on evictions, [...]

Another chapter in President Trump's quest to shape the future of the J. Edgar Hoover Building seemed over as Republicans distanced themselves from the administration's $1.75 billion demand. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Seung Min Kim and Jeff Stein WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump brushed off the new $1 trillion Senate GOP coronavirus legislation as 'sort of semi-irrelevant' Tuesday, dismissing [...]

Byline: Justin George WASHINGTON - Public transportation providers sounded a unified alarm Tuesday after the Senate excluded transit from a new coronavirus relief proposal, a move that transit leaders warned [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - The GOP Senate's new $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill restores hundreds of millions of dollars in Pentagon spending that the Trump administration [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Lead The law extending the federal government's emergency wage subsidy for employers hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown made it through the Senate [...]

The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee is preparing to relax capital requirements imposed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Big banks may get a big gift in [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein and Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are preparing to release a $1 trillion coronavirus spending plan on Monday, setting up tough negotiations with [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein and Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans will propose cutting weekly emergency unemployment benefits from $600 to $200 until states can bring a more [...]

Byline: LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Lead House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday assailed Republican 'disarray' over a new pandemic relief package as the White House suggested [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein and Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - A fraught showdown over the next coronavirus relief bill got underway Monday as Senate Republicans unveiled a $1 trillion [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans unveiled a $1 trillion coronavirus relief bill Monday that would not extend the suspension of federal student loan payments beyond September, drawing the [...]

Byline: Erica Werner, Jeff Stein and Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON -- A fraught showdown over the next coronavirus relief bill got under way Monday as Senate Republicans unveiled a $1 [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is seeking a delay on evictions and debt collection actions until Jan. 31, providing additional time for the General [...]

Byline: Jonathan O'Connell, Seung Min Kim and Erica Werner WASHINGTON - Under White House pressure, Senate Republicans agreed Monday to allocate $1.75 billion in their coronavirus relief bill toward the [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Jeff Stein Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that Congress might have to pass a narrow piece of [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Jeff Stein Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that Congress might have to pass a narrow piece of [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Jeff Stein Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that Congress might have to pass a narrow piece of [...]

It's a big week ahead in Washington, where Congress will hash out the fate of jobless benefits for over 30 million people as the coronavirus rages on. Here's what else [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein and Erica Werner With days to go before enhanced jobless benefits expire, the White House and Senate Republicans are struggling to design a way to scale back [...]