Growing Republican criticism risks complicating passage of a once-bipartisan bill intended to make the U.S economy more competitive, saying it goes too easy on China even as it aims to aid the domestic semiconductor industry.
Federal agencies will be able to employ temporary staff and speed hiring as the government hastens to carry out the $1 trillion infrastructure law, President Joe Biden’s administration said Tuesday.
The U.S. is putting as many as 8,500 troops on heightened alert for deployment to bolster NATO forces in Eastern Europe if needed as Russian troops mass on Ukraine’s borders, offering a show of military force alongside diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis.
Democrats are pushing forward with a plan today to advance voting rights priorities, but they still face long odds in the Senate to overcome Republican opposition. President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as Federal Reserve vice chair heads to the Senate today, where Lael Brainard plans to warn about the threat of inflation to the…
Sen. Joe Manchin sent his party scrambling this week to revise its sweeping domestic policy agenda on almost everything but drug-price negotiation and bolstering Obamacare.