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Senate passes short-term government funding bill averting a shutdown

The Senate passed a short-term government funding bill Thursday, averting a shutdown after a last-minute roadblock emerged over enforcement of President Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate.

February 17, 2022

GOP absences prevent Senate from defunding Biden’s vaccine mandate

Senate Democrats on Thursday averted an attempt to defund President Biden's vaccine mandate for public health care workers due to the absence of four Republican lawmakers.

February 17, 2022

Rising gas prices and tax-holiday proposal put Biden, Democrats in bind

Record-high inflation, geopolitical tensions abroad and warnings about the price of gasoline reaching $7 per gallon have Democrats in Washington scrambling to address costs directly hurting Americans' pocketbooks.

February 17, 2022

McConnell says gas tax holiday is a political stunt by vulnerable Democrats

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused Democrats of political gamesmanship in their attempts to suspend the federal gasoline tax.

February 17, 2022

Democrats struggle to find uniform inflation plan amid competing ambitions

Democrats are struggling to come up with a comprehensive plan to combat inflation, as Americans continue to be plagued by shrinking paychecks and higher prices.

February 16, 2022

Biden pushing Congress for an additional $30 billion to combat COVID-19

President Biden is readying to ask Congress to shell out an additional $30 billion in taxpayer money to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

February 15, 2022

Republicans vow to delay funding bill to win concessions on crack pipes, vaccine mandate

The short-term government funding bill is facing trouble in the 50-50 Senate from a contingent of Republican lawmakers eager to extract concessions from Democrats in exchange for averting a shutdown.

February 15, 2022

Sen. Manchin balks at vulnerable Democrats’ push to suspend federal gasoline tax

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III pushed back Tuesday on a proposal by vulnerable members of his party to suspend the federal gasoline tax until after the November elections.

February 15, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: House GOP urges Democrats to launch a bipartisan investigation into soaring inflation

House Republicans are demanding the Democratic majorities in Congress launch a bipartisan investigation into soaring inflation, which the GOP says would be more productive than demonizing businesses for rising prices.

February 15, 2022

Sen. Rick Scott delays $50B bailout of U.S. Post Office

Sen. Rick Scott has delayed speedy consideration of a bill to shore up the U.S. Postal Service.

February 15, 2022

Senate GOP threatens to delay government funding bill over Biden’s vaccine mandate

A cadre of Senate Republicans are pledging to delay speedy consideration of a government funding bill unless Congress defunds President Biden's vaccine mandate.

February 14, 2022

Democrats renew calls for a minimum tax on corporate profits after Tesla report

Democratic lawmakers are renewing their calls for taxing corporate profits after revelations that Tesla will pay nothing in taxes to the federal government, despite making nearly $6 billion in profits last year.

February 14, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s infrastructure czar accused of ignoring GOP calls for transparency on spending

President Biden's infrastructure czar Mitch Landrieu is ignoring calls for transparency on how the administration is doling out more than $1.2 trillion in taxpayer dollars for new road, highway and port projects, according to Republican lawmakers.

February 10, 2022

Manchin urges Democrats to nix Trump tax cuts to cool skyrocketing inflation

Sen. Joe Manchin III urged fellow Democrats on Thursday to come together and gut the Trump-era tax cuts in the wake of bombshell inflation numbers.

February 10, 2022

Manchin accuses White House, Democrats of wanting reckless spending as inflation soars

Sen. Joe Manchin III criticized the White House and fellow Democrats on Thursday for wanting to spend "trillions more of taxpayers' money" as inflation soars to heights unseen in 40 years.

February 10, 2022

Nuclear power increasingly popular as energy costs, supply chain issues mount under Biden

Nuclear power is getting a second look from congressional lawmakers as energy costs soar across the country, supply chain problems continue and President Biden pushes a robust climate change agenda to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 50% over the next decade.

February 9, 2022

House passes short-term funding bill to keep government afloat past Feb. 18

The House passed a short-term spending measure on Tuesday meant to keep the government afloat for the next month as bipartisan lawmakers race to devise a year-long budget deal.

February 8, 2022

Biden’s climate policies added $1,000 to Americans’ energy bills in 2021, study finds

President Biden's plan to make combatting climate change a "whole of government agenda" resulted in Americans shelling out more than $1,000 extra in energy costs last year, according to a new report.

February 8, 2022

Manchin unsure of Democrats’ push to unionize congressional staff

Sen. Joe Manchin III said Tuesday he needed to know more about the issue before he could back the nascent effort from fellow Democrats to allow congressional staffers to unionize.

February 8, 2022

Senate GOP pushes repeal of Biden’s $600 IRS reporting rule for online payment platforms

A cadre of Republican senators is moving to overturn requirements that third-party internet platforms report transactions of more than $600 to the Internal Revenue Service.

February 8, 2022