Day: March 25, 2020

President Trump’s 2020 campaign is firing back at former Vice President Joe Biden’s team, arguing that the Democratic front-runner wasn’t following his own directive about heeding the advice of experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, who’s leading the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump on Wednesday defended the inclusion of $25 million in funding for the Kennedy Center as part of the massive economic relief bill aimed at boosting small businesses and workers harmed by the fallout of the coronavirus.

Joe Biden said Wednesday that Democrats have “had enough” debates, suggesting he is unwilling to have another one-on-one showdown with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Stocks closed with mixed gains Wednesday as some bipartisan opposition emerged to 

Bernie Sanders has said he will debate the former vice president next month if the DNC moves forward with the event.

The Senate emergency stimulus compromise package allocates $75 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the nonprofit that funds National Public Radio (NPR), offers programming featuring the children’s character “Big Bird” and supports other public stations.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., defended her caucus’ push for a sweeping alternative to Senate Republicans’ coronavirus relief package, arguing that “everything we are suggesting just relates to COVID-19.”

A group supporting Joe Biden’s presidential bid is running a new television ad across the country criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Senate stimulus compromise package aimed at helping Americans cope with the economic woes caused by the coronavirus crisis includes millions for the arts.

As states and counties react to fears over the havoc coronavirus could wreak, the Trump administration faces growing pressure to take similar measures in the federal prison system.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding a press conference on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 25,665 people in the state as of Tuesday.

The package would provide direct payments to taxpayers, jobless benefits and a $500 billion fund to assist distressed businesses, with oversight requirements demanded by Democrats.

Trump’s in way over his head and his own businesses are failing — and his desperate flailing will kill people

Vice President Mike Pence announced that 4,000 ventilators will be shipped to New York, as New York City remains the country’s coronavirus epicenter. In Cali…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) outlines what is in the $2-trillion stimulus package that will provide a jolt to an economy struggling amid the C…

A customer coughed and then said he had coronavirus to an employee at a Wegmans in Manalapan, according to Gov. Phil Murphy.

When a Wegmans worker asked the man to step back, he leaned into her, coughed, and told her he had coronavirus, authorities said..

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Tuesday that 300 nonviolent, elderly inmates would be released from Rikers Island in an effort to stem the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump’s businesses are barred from getting loans or investments under the new $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus deal, according to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

“We haven’t flattened the curve, and the curve is actually increasing,” the governor said as confirmed cases in the state increased to nearly 26,000.

White House and Senate leaders reached a breakthrough deal shortly after midnight Wednesday on a massive and historic $2 trillion coronavirus relief package for workers and businesses, capping days of heated negotiations that had nearly been derailed by last-minute demands from House Democrats.

A New Jersey man was busted on Tuesday after coughing on a Wegmans employee and telling her he had the coronavirus, authorities said. The staffer at the Manalapan grocery store worried that George …