Tag: Labor

National Security

Four dozen TSA screening officers at airports around the nation test positive for coronavirus

Anna Giaritelli · March 27, 2020 9:29 pm

Attendees wave rainbow pride flags during a Stonewall Inn 50th anniversary commemoration rally in New York, U.S., on Friday, June 28, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Liberal union launches smear campaign against openly gay Trump appointee

Brad Polumbo · March 27, 2020 10:00 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., stands during a news conference on climate change at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019.

Pelosi claims Democratic effort ensured economic relief bill put ‘workers first’

Dominick Mastrangelo · March 26, 2020 6:55 pm

Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis pledges to sell $500K in stock to provide relief to employees

Andrew Mark Miller · March 26, 2020 6:08 pm

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Beltway Confidential

Unprecedented jobless claims prove coronavirus is a black swan, not a normal depression

Tiana Lowe Doescher · March 26, 2020 3:50 pm

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, speaks with Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., as Attorney General nominee William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019.

‘A massive drafting error’: GOP senators warn coronavirus relief bill could incentivize mass layoffs

John Gage · March 25, 2020 6:21 pm

‘Hung out to dry’: Border Patrol agents say agency doing too little to protect them against coronavirus

Anna Giaritelli · March 24, 2020 4:17 am

Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., second from right, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks to members of the media following a Senate policy luncheon, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Democrats win expanded unemployment insurance as Congress races to pass economic relief bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 21, 2020 8:07 pm

Man arrested after police say he forged a coronavirus doctor note and created a panic

Zach Halaschak · March 21, 2020 12:27 am

New York facing ‘unprecedented increase’ in unemployment claims amid coronavirus pandemic

Tim Pearce · March 20, 2020 7:14 pm

Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell.

McConnell aims for agreement with Democrats on massive stimulus bill by Friday night

Nihal Krishan · March 20, 2020 4:07 pm

Vice President Mike Pence, center, tours a Walmart Distribution Center Wednesday April 1, 2020, in Gordonsville, Va.

Finance and Economy

Walmart giving over $500 million in early bonuses to employees because of the coronavirus outbreak

John Gage · March 20, 2020 3:05 am