JULY 30, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump says he wants the next coronavirus relief package to be "very generous" with direct stimulus payments to Americans that are potentially more than $1,200.
"It may go higher than that, actually," Trump said in an interview on Wednesday with ABC affiliate KMID in Texas during a trip to the state.
"I'd like to...
JULY 29, 2020
The hearing - featuring Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai teleconferencing in - went more than five hours, with each lawmaker on the panel getting three rounds of questioning.-Washington Examiner/Pool
Here are the five biggest takeaways from Wednesday's hearing.
Lawmakers have collected a lot of info from Big Tech's competitors
The subcommittee's in-depth...
JULY 29, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at a news conference at the US Capitol last month in Washington, DC. - Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday she would require all House members and aides to wear masks on the floor after Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert -- who was often in the chamber interacting with colleagues and...
JULY 29, 2020
Senator Kamala Harris is seen by some as the favorite to be picked as Joe Biden's vice presidential candidate. - Tom Williams
Joe Biden's vice presidential pick has been one of Washington’s best kept secrets but a supposedly accidental news publication by Politico and Biden’s own teasingly displayed notes are raising expectations that the winner is Kamala Harris.
Do...
JULY 28, 2020
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. released the fourth piece of his “Build Back Better” proposal in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday. Michelle V. Agins/NY Times
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE — Joseph R. Biden Jr. unveiled wide-ranging plans on Tuesday to address systemic racism in the nation’s economy, saying this year’s election was about “understanding people’s struggles” and pledging to...
JULY 28, 2020
Portrait of a young Caucasian girl wearing a white medical mask on a background of nature and cityscape, coronavirus, air pollution concept
Health experts have been recommending wearing protective face coverings for many months, primarily because they can prevent the spread of COVID-19 from you to others. However, there has been a little confusion as to the...
JULY 28, 2020
Attorney General William Barr appears before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post/POOL)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General William P. Barr testified for the first time in his tenure in front of a critical congressional audience — a House Judiciary Committee with a Democratic majority — as the Justice Department faces questions from critics...
JULY 28, 2020
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center says the Trump campaign is violating federal election transparency rules by masking the true sources of campaign expenditures.
The Trump campaign says it 'complies with all campaign finance laws' and Federal Election Commission regulations.
Trump has previously declared himself 'the most transparent president, probably, in the history of this country.'
Don't...
JULY 28, 2020
Sen. Marco Rubio says including undocumented immigrants in the census results “dilutes the representation of people that are here legally and eligible to vote.”
President Donald Trump’s memorandum to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment may be bittersweet to dozens of Hill Republicans — it’s been a party priority for years but may hurt the states they...
JULY 28, 2020
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, said early Tuesday that he had not misled Americans "under any circumstances" after President Trump suggested that he had.
Asked on ABC's "Good Morning America" about Trump retweeting a post claiming Fauci has "misled the American public on many issues," Fauci responded: "'I have not been misleading the American public...
