Lawmakers

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was one of only five members of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote against a nearly half-a-trillion-dollar package to provide another tranche of aid to small businesses struggling to keep their companies afloat and their employees paid amid the coronavirus pandemic.The other four lawmakers were Republicans: Jody Hice (Ga.), Ken…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said during the 2008 financial crisis that lawmakers should “never let a crisis go to waste,” and many Democratic lawmakers appear to be heeding that advice -- using the coronavirus pandemic as a jumping-off point to…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.California lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are requesting details from Gov. Gavin Newsom regarding a $1 billion deal to buy hundreds of millions of coronavirus protective masks from a Chinese manufacturer, according to a report.Two weeks after announcing…

TOPLINE Congressional leaders have reached a bipartisan deal to replenish funds for emergency small business lending programs, national coronavirus testing, and hospitals after days of tense debate, according to multiple news reports. Schumer: “There’s still a few more I’s to dot and T’s to cross, but we have a deal. And I believe ... [+]…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Lawmakers are calling for China to face accountability as suspicion grows that the novel coronavirus escaped from a lab before touching off the catastrophic pandemic, claiming the Chinese government is responsible and must "pay the price.""There is zero doubt that the Chinese communist…