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While Congress appears to be far from agreeing on a comprehensive COVID-19 relief package, the Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday that about 50,000 people will be receiving stimulus checks next month.

The signs and banners are dotted along suburban commercial strips and hanging in shop windows and restaurants: “Now Hiring, $15 an hour.”

With the House Budget Committee advancing a 591-page, $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package Monday, many are wondering whether they’ll qualify for the promised $1,400 stimulus checks included in the proposal. Here’s what we know…

Pelosi noted that Congress has yet to pass any further coronavirus relief aid and placed blame for the inaction on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The COVID-19 legislation has been held up after months of dysfunction, posturing and bad faith. But talks turned serious last week as lawmakers on both sides finally faced the deadline of acting before leaving Washington for Christmas.

In this edition of Newsfeed Now, the South is bracing for potentially destructive springs storms and a family in Indiana is grieving after four people, including a child, were killed in a fight over stimulus money.

(NEXSTAR) – The parents of an estimated 60 million American children began receiving child tax credit payments from the IRS this week in a move expected to lift millions of families above the poverty baseline for the remainder of 2021. As many parents know by now, the payments differ from stimulus checks in that they […]

After an all-night session, the Senate gave President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package its stamp of approval.

President-elect Joe Biden has said fixing the economy will be one of his administration’s top priorities when he takes office in January.

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The American Rescue Plan took center stage today in an evenly divided Senate. “This country is in the midst of a once in a century crisis,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. Schumer and U.S. Senate Democrats pushed to get President Joe Biden’s $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief bill across the finish line. […]

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Democrats agreed Wednesday to tighten the upper income limits at which people could qualify for stimulus checks, a Democratic official said, a major concession to moderates as party leaders prepared to move their $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill through the Senate. The COVID-19 relief measure Senate Democrats planned to […]