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We've gone just over two weeks now without hearing much of anything from Donald Trump: Banned from Twitter, absent from Fox & Friends call-ins, the former president has been unusually low key at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida. That will change  Tuesday, when he will once again be at the center of the media…

UPDATED, 3:47 PM PT: The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will start the week of February 8, giving time for the former president’s team to prepare its defense and for the Senate to confirm Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave the timeline on Friday. The article of…

Democrats took control of the Senate for the first time since 2015, as Vice President Kamala Harris swore in her appointed successor, Alex Padilla, as well as Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who won their races in Georgia this month. “I need to catch my breath, so much is happening,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Donald Trump to be removed from office immediately, following the siege of the Capitol that was motivated by the president’s unfounded claims that the election was stolen from him. “What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United…

Senate and House leaders announced an agreement on a nearly $900 billion Covid-19 relief package on Sunday that includes specific aid to struggling independent movie theaters and live entertainment venues. The package allocates $15 billion for theaters and other cultural institutions, following months in which artists…

The day after Christmas is known in the UK as Boxing Day. For millions of Americans, it could literally be the day they start packing, as enhanced unemployment benefits expire on Dec. 26 and a federal moratorium on evictions ends on Dec. 31. The negotiations over a new round of stimulus are now batting around the idea…

U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Broadway League renewed the call for dedicated federal funding for Broadway and other New York live venues today, reiterating the push for the $10 billion bipartisan Save Our Stages campaign. “Today we are fighting hard to keep stages alive, stories told and shows going…

UPDATED, with additional Trump comments: Laid off and furloughed workers in entertainment face even more uncertainty over unemployment benefits, as negotiations on Capitol Hill stalled over a massive new coronavirus relief package. On Twitter, Donald Trump vowed to go a “different way,” by passing Congress via an…

President Donald Trump said that he is looking into executive action to extend enhanced unemployment benefits, protections against evictions and a temporary suspension of payroll tax collection. What is unclear is whether the president has the authority to do so. What is clear is that Trump and the White House are…

White House officials and top Democrats indicated some progress in talks over a massive new coronavirus relief package, including an extension of COVID-19 federal unemployment benefits. “They made some concessions which we appreciated. We made some concessions which they appreciated,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schum…

Even as COVID-19 unemployment benefits expired last week, likely leaving millions in the lurch, top Democrats and Trump administration representatives failed to reach a deal on their extension Monday. “They are sticking to their position,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters today, an apparent…

The Republican version of a new pandemic economic stimulus package should arrive next week, reports indicate, as Senate GOP leaders and the White House claim to have reached agreement on what they will propose on Monday. The $600 federal unemployment benefit ends tomorrow, leaving the millions of unemployed people…