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Trump Says His 60-Day Immigration Ban Will Only Apply To People Applying For Green Cards. But The Order Is Still "Being Written."

The policy announcement comes during a time when the immigration system has already slowed down significantly.

April 21, 2020

Mexican migrant workers line up to pay for snacks after harvest at an oranges farm in Lake Wales, Florida. April 1. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday night that he would suspend temporarily all immigration to the United States through an

Trump says he will suspend all immigration into U.S. over coronavirus

April 21, 2020

Opinion: One $1,200 stimulus check won’t cut it. Give Americans $2,000 a month tax-free to fire up the economy

April 20, 2020

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April 19, 2020

Congress, Trump administration close to deal on new aid package

The more than $400 billion in emergency funding focuses on small businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

April 19, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo

April 08, 2020

Bernie Sanders ends his second bid for the presidency

The 78-year-old democratic socialist changed many things about the Democratic Party, but he could not become its leader.

April 08, 2020

Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigning in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on March 8, 2020. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

April 07, 2020

White House press secretary Grisham leaves post... without ever having held a briefing

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham is stepping down from her position after less than a year. She will instead begin working with Melania Trump.

April 07, 2020

April 04, 2020

Inspector General Michael Atkins told lawmakers about a whistleblower complaint that led to impeachment

"[T]he President’s dead of night decision puts our country and national security at even greater risk," said Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, after news broke that Trump would be firing Michael Atkinson.

April 04, 2020

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March 31, 2020

Top White House advisers predict as many as 240,000 US deaths from coronavirus - live updates

In recent days Trump has touted that the U.S. has conducted more tests than any other country, but he leaves out a key piece of context: While the U.S. has surpassed South Korea in terms of raw tests, it has administered far fewer tests per capita given that the U.S. is more than six times the size of South Korea.

March 31, 2020

Watch live coverage of a White House coronavirus briefing.

March 30, 2020

Trump threatens to ‘take over’ San Francisco from ‘sick puppy’ Pelosi in fiery reply to her Covid-19 response bashing

President Donald Trump slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on ‘Fox and Friends,’ suggesting the federal government could take over her “slum” district San Francisco, as the two locked horns on the coronavirus pandemic response.

March 30, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump meet at the White House © REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

March 28, 2020

Sorry, haters, Trump is more popular than ever

4 takeaways from a mid-crisis polling spike for the U.S. president

March 28, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump, seen here wearing a campaign cap during a meeting to discuss the pandemic at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta earlier this month, is seeing the best polling numbers of his presidency. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta

March 28, 2020

Trump to Mike Pence: 'Don't call the woman in Michigan,' aka Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

It's not the first time Trump and Whitmer have clashed over the federal government's coronavirus response.

March 28, 2020

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tells Michigan residents to stay at home Monday, in her most sweeping order of the coronavirus crisis, in Lansing, Mich./ Julia Pickett/Michigan Office Of The Governor Via AP

March 27, 2020

The $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Bill Has Passed The House And Been Signed Into Law

It is the largest emergency relief package in American history.

March 27, 2020

March 25, 2020

Senate Moves Towards Vote on Coronavirus Stimulus Package

Legislation to provide direct payments to many Americans, expand unemployment insurance, offer health-care providers additional resources

March 25, 2020

WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib looks at four key differences between this bailout and the one of 2008 and 2009. Photo: Saul Loeb/Getty Images

March 25, 2020

Senate, White House reach $2 trillion stimulus deal to blunt coronavirus fallout

Both chambers of Congress will aim to pass the mammoth legislation swiftly.

March 25, 2020

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, speaks to reporters at the Capitol about the coronavirus stimulus bill.

March 23, 2020

Americans Want Paid Sick Leave For Coronavirus Crisis. Why Won’t Congress Deliver?

It’s “beyond shameful” that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won’t prioritize it, one advocate says.

March 23, 2020

March 20, 2020

Tulsi Gabbard lost her political future & moral high ground with Biden-2020 endorsement

Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race to endorse her ideological opposite, establishment darling Joe Biden. It's political suicide – for her, and for the idea of a progressive Democrat.

March 20, 2020

March 19, 2020

GOP senators sold off their stocks ahead of coronavirus economic crash, reports say

Sens. Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler both made dozens of stock trades shortly after private health briefings for Congress began in January.

March 19, 2020

HuffPost / CORONA CRONIES: *TWO* SENS CASHED IN ON CATASTROPHE

March 19, 2020

Pelosi calls on Trump to use Defense Production Act

That tweet was a confusing signal from Trump after he had invoked the DPA earlier in the day, announcing the move at a White House briefing on the health crisis.

March 19, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Trump. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP, Evan Vucci/AP)

March 17, 2020

Biden crushes Sanders in Florida and Illinois primaries

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has steamrolled rival Bernie Sanders in primary elections in Florida and Illinois.

March 17, 2020

March 14, 2020

House passes aid bill after Trump declares virus emergency

Trump said, “I don't take responsibility at all" for the slow rollout of testing.

March 14, 2020

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., makes a statement ahead of a planned late-night vote on the coronavirus aid package deal at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 13, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)