Government Spending

As art of the CARES Act, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program is a bipartisan effort to ensure that Americans who lose their jobs for COVID-19 related reasons can survive economically.

It is increasingly likely that all Congress will do before the election is pass legislation to avoid a federal shutdown

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Wednesday said he is "trying to be a voice" for struggling small business owners by supporting a Senate bill known as the RESTART Act.

White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow on Tuesday broke down the contents of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's coronavirus relief package.

A grand jury has indicted a Massachusetts man who allegedly faked his own death to avoid prosecution for fraudulently seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in forgivable loans intended for businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, while his accomplice has agreed to plead guilty in connection with the alleged crime, officials recently announced.

The White House is asking government agencies to disclose details of any funding that supports China or counters its global influence.

Watchdog says agency needs more than $2 billion.

Amtrak will furlough more than 2,000 workers as a result of the steep decline in travel demand from the coronavirus pandemic.

The Treasury Department said it has reclaimed a majority of the more than $1 billion worth of economic impact payments that were sent to dead people.

Democrats were FOR the payroll tax cut (under Obama) before they were against it (under Trump).

A pair of neighbors in Florida is accused of working together to commit an estimated $1.1 million in novel coronavirus-relief fraud by falsely claiming they were farmers, officials recently announced.

Watchdog group questions $521.6 million in overtime costs incurred during fiscal 2019.

Moderna said that its experimental coronavirus vaccine induced immune responses in people aged 56 years and older, a promising sign for a vulnerable age group.

Trump has indicated that he wants to pursue a sweeping elimination of the tax next year.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will not be able to afford his "unbelievable dreams of government spending" without raising taxes on the middle class, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Tuesday.

An Opportunity Zone is an “economically distressed community” where private investments can get special tax treatments.

So far, police have discovered more than $250,000 in illegitimate payments and have recovered $150,000 in cash.

Joe Biden wants the federal government to spend close to $7 trillion more over the next decade on issues like health care, housing and climate change.

The plan would have cut funding by billions of dollars, the president said.

The current controversy over the U.S. Postal Service's lack of resources and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's cost-cutting measures are based on suspicion that service changes are meant to impair mail-in voting, but the USPS 2019 annual report to Congress shows that in reality, they are nearly at the point of insolvency.