Tag: Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell at a press conference.

Beltway Confidential

The vaccine is here: Time for one more coronavirus relief package and then no more

Eddie Scarry · December 3, 2020 6:17 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speak to reporters about the massive government spending bill moving through Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 22, 2018. The bipartisan $1.3 trillion spending bill pours huge sums into Pentagon programs and domestic initiatives ranging from building roads to combatting the nation's opioid abuse crisis, but left Congress in stalemate over shielding young Dreamer immigrants from deportation and curbing surging health insurance premiums.

Top Democrats throw support behind new bipartisan virus aid package

Susan Ferrechio · December 3, 2020 2:27 pm

McConnell chokes up during goodbye floor speech to longtime friend Lamar Alexander

Mica Soellner · December 2, 2020 4:52 pm

The latest on the COVID-19 vaccines rollout

Cassidy Morrison · December 2, 2020 1:12 am

Under pressure: Lawmakers push House and Senate leaders to cut COVID aid deal by Christmas

Susan Ferrechio · December 1, 2020 11:00 pm

McConnell crafting COVID-19 aid bill to pass by year’s end

Susan Ferrechio · December 1, 2020 8:18 pm

Anger on social media after Podesta emails show Neera Tanden trash-talking liberal causes and activists. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden pick for OMB director has a Steele dossier problem

Jerry Dunleavy · November 30, 2020 11:45 pm

McConnell: Pelosi’s holdout for $2.2 trillion COVID-19 aid package ‘backfired’

Susan Ferrechio · November 30, 2020 10:02 pm

Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.) brandishes a shillelagh for the benefit of photographers on arriving in Manitowoc, Wisc., March 13, 1954, to address the Manitowoc Junior Chamber of Commerce. A CNN analyst has compared GOP leaders to those during McCarthy's days for their silence in challenging President Trump's voter fraud claims.

Washington Secrets

Liberal Media Scream: In Trump, CNN sees ‘rampages of Joe McCarthy’

Paul Bedard · November 30, 2020 7:35 pm

Beltway Confidential

Republicans tread lightly on Trump’s post-election fight because they want to survive

Jeremy Beaman · November 25, 2020 6:59 pm

A woman carrying shopping bags on the escalator in a shopping mall.

Third-quarter GDP unchanged at 33.1% annual rate as pandemic weighs on future growth

Jay Heflin · November 25, 2020 1:32 pm

Former President Donald Trump watches as Donald Trump Jr. speaks at a pre-election campaign event at the Kenosha Regional Airport in Kenosha, Wis. Trump son said the Senate impeachment trial is making his father stronger politically.

Republicans hope Trump’s future ambitions will guide how he handles 2020 race ending

W. James Antle III · November 23, 2020 11:55 pm