Tag: Chuck Schumer
Partisan division rules with no end in sight for federal government...
WASHINGTON (AP) – A vote to swiftly end the government shutdown failed Wednesday, as Democrats in the Senate held firm to the party’s demands to fund...
McKee: Trump stopping work on Revolution Wind is an attack on...
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Gov. Daniel J. McKee called President Donald Trump's stop-work order for Revolution Wind an attack on the state and its livelihood...
White House rescinds order freezing federal grants
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump's budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it...
Trump orders funding freeze during review of federal loans and grants
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting Tuesday as President Donald Trump's administration begins an across-the-board ideological review...
Pot regulation proposal leaves banking problem
The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous controlled drug was hailed as a monumental step in reshaping national policy. But it...
Treasury Dept. now taking ‘extraordinary measures’ on debt
WASHINGTON (AP) – The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default is in the offing, and frictions between President Joe Biden and House Republicans are...
Senate moves to avert rail strike amid dire warnings
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate moved quickly Thursday to avert a rail strike that the Biden administration and business leaders warned would have had...
Senate passes U.S. tax overhaul, putting GOP on brink of big...
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans passed the most extensive rewrite of the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years, a bill that delivers a...
