STATE AND LOCAL

Rick Scott reacts to new CDC guidance recommending vaccinated individuals in high-risk COVID areas to wear masks indoors.

'Kudlow' host slammed woke budgeting in his monologue and explained how spending caps would work.

Infrastructure talks in the Senate on Thursday and Friday seemed to teeter on the edge of failure as some Republicans began airing grievances over Democrats' transit-related demands, with a Monday deadline looming for another procedural vote on the bill.

The Biden administration is moving in the right direction in their response to unrest in Cuba but Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, advocated for unwavering support by the president to fight against the country’s tyrannical leadership.

Senate Republicans on Wednesday mounted a filibuster against a motion to debate a more than $1 trillion infrastructure bill that President Biden brokered with a bipartisan group of senators, dealing a setback for efforts to fund new roads, bridges and broadband improvements.

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that just six out of the 26 states that have announced that they would terminate their participation in the federal unemployment program have unemployment rates that exceed the national average of 5.9% (as of June).

Sen. Bill Cassidy blasted Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the White House for rushing a vote on a bipartisan infrastructure plan that Cassidy said has not yet been completed.

The first installment of the new child tax credit will begin to hit the bank accounts of an estimated 39 million parents Thursday, and President Biden hailed the payments as one of the most consequential achievements of his presidency.

Republicans were quick to condemn Democrats' new $3.5 trillion budget plan as too big and detrimental to the economic recovery.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., argued Wednesday that America "can't afford" Democrats' $3.5T spending package.

Some Democrats in Congress are pressing President Biden to repeal a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions as he considers tax increases, but a number of states have already approved a method that allows some residents to circumvent the cap.

Former President Donald Trump called Friday night for Senate Republicans to withdraw from negotiations over President Biden’s $1.2 trillion spending proposal, warning that "RINO Republicans" were "just being played by the Radical Left Democrats."

A second ally of PayPal co-founder and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel is now running for the Senate. Blake Masters, chief operating officer of Thiel Capital and president of the Thiel Foundation, on Friday filed paperwork to run for the Senate in the crucial battleground state of Arizona.

Arizona is the latest state looking to lower its income tax rate, citing a budget surplus despite the economic havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.

Attorneys and experts who spoke to FOX Business are voicing concerns about cracks in the concrete of the Champlain Towers condominium in Surfside, Florida, that unexpectedly collapsed on June 24.

Two top GOP negotiators who are part of the group of 10 bipartisan senators who hammered out a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure plan say they accept President Biden’s walking back of comments that he would only sign the deal if it were accompanied by a separate and much larger Democratic spending measure.

A condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, on Thursday morning has left many wondering what caused the massive implosion.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R- Wyo., told "Varney & Co." on Tuesday that she supports regulations for cryptocurrencies because she wants a "level playing field"

Gas prices have whizzed past $3 per gallon in much of the nation. The cost of used cars and new furniture, airline tickets, department store blouses, ground beef and a Chipotle burrito are on the rise, too.