President Joe Biden met with a group of 10 Republicans at the White House on Monday to discuss COVID relief legislation, but he quickly made it clear following the meeting that he won’t settle for a watered-down GOP proposal. The full statement: The President and the Vice President had a substantive and productive discussion with … Read more
Follow-up to David Gordon’s post, Are Republicans Serious About Compromise On Covid Relief Probably Not But The People Should Know For Sure Soon. Moody’s Analytics Mark Zandi’s analysis of The Biden Fiscal Rescue Package: Light on the Horizon (introduction): President-elect Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion fiscal rescue package, the American Rescue Plan, would provide a … Read more
With Democrats telling Republicans to put up or get out of the way on the American Rescue Act, ten Republican Senators led by Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Rob Portman, and Bill Cassidy have released the outline of an alternative COVID relief plan that is less than a third of the cost of the … Read more
With the prospects of passing the COVID 19 relief legislation (the American Rescue Act) with large bipartisan support apparently dissipating, Vice President Kamala Harris has been dispatched to local media outlets in Arizona and West Virginia to consolidate support from Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema, Mark Kelly, and Joe Manchin for the $1.9 trillion measure in … Read more
Let us hear Republicans moan and groan about this. President Biden signed two Executive Orders today designed to increase access to health care for the American People. Saying “it is more critical that Americans have critical access to health care,” President Biden signed two Executive Orders that: Reopened the Obamacare-Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces from … Read more