More than 20 governors across the country, including Governor Henry McMaster, are opposing a new standard in President Joe Biden’s stimulus bill that determines how federal funds would be allocated to states.
About 1.3 million Americans submitted first-time jobless claims last week. Roughly 847,000 are seeking unemployment benefits.
Lawmakers in Washington D.C. are still discussing a COVID-19 relief plan to get more stimulus payments to struggling Americans.
The Department of Labor says unemployed workers will not lose payments due to the delayed signing of a new COVID relief bill.
An American Airlines memo tells its previously furloughed pilots that the newly passed stimulus bill will get them paid.
The House has voted to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, where the outcome is uncertain.
The massive coronavirus relief bill includes $1.4 trillion for government agencies through September.
Financial help from the government for millions of struggling Americans is still on hold as President Trump, who is now in Florida for the holidays, is refusing to sign the bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill.
On Thursday, the House of Representatives failed to advance a measure that would increase direct payments to Americans under a certain income level to $2,000.
Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package overnight that will finally deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals as well as resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
