Policy · 116th Congress
Senators eye FEMA as alternative for speeding aid to food banks
Two Senate Democatic appropriators say FEMA can turn to its disaster relief fund to provide food to food banks and other nonprofit groups
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Two Senate Democatic appropriators say FEMA can turn to its disaster relief fund to provide food to food banks and other nonprofit groups
The White House unveiled details Monday on the allocation of $11 billion in testing funds for state governments.
Agriculture Department awards less than half of $3 billion food purchase to move surplus out of the market and to food banks and other groups.
Pandemic and isolation have decimated markets for commercial fishing fleets. Trump sees an opportunity to boost farmed fish.
Lawmakers want new money and shifts of existing funds to help multinational efforts to develop and distribute a vaccine equitably around the globe
Financial groups ask Congress to provide funds for smallest businesses, fewer loan restrictions and less paperwork in final forgiveness.
The Strategic National Stockpile shipped 28 million tablets of a malaria drug that Trump touted as a potential treatment for COVID-19 to states.
Ur-Energy Inc. received $893,300 through two of its subsidiaries during the first round of Paycheck Protection Program loans.
Fears over harm to the military's use of the Global Positioning System caused Pentagon officials and senators to protest a recent FCC decision
Some Democrats are taking a different tack by seeking to expand government-funded insurance coverage and defending the health care law in court.
The Supreme Court appeared split over the future of two Trump administration rules that advocates worry could limit access to contraception.
The American Medical Association asked the Trump administration to exclude foreign medical workers so they could help U.S. doctors fight the coronavirus.
The high court, which is more conservative than in the past, will decide whether employers can stop covering birth control.
The Congressional Research Service issued a report cataloging the effects of financial technology in the securities and banking industries.
Brian Miller, a Trump attorney, met skepticism from Senate Democrats about his ability to independently oversee pandemic spending
Lawmakers from left and right are aiming their anti-trust guns at Silicon Valley as tech companies do well in the coronavirus economy while others do not
The SBA is putting agriculture at the front of the line for Economic Injury Disaster Loans, raising objections from the travel industry.
Discussions have begun on how to wind down the coronovirus task force that coordinates the Trump administration's response to the global pandemic.
HHS official alleges that his supervisors downplayed COVID-19 warnings and touted treatments that weren't scientifically proved.
Field operations for the 2020 count were suspended in March - and had been suspended through early June - amid the coronavirus pandemic.