Politics

Where the money is going in the bipartisan COVID-19 economic relief plan introduced in Congress.

Democratic leaders got behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort Wednesday, cutting their demands for a $2 trillion-plus measure by more than half in hopes of breaking a monthslong logjam and delivering much-sought aid.

For a second day in a row, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke to Congress about coronavirus relief.

President Donald Trump pleaded his case in the court of public opinion – arguing anew that the Nov. 3 contest was riddled with unprecedented fraud that tipped the scales against him, but they were the same claims rejected as baseless by judges across the country and this week by his own Attorney General.

Democratic leaders got behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort Wednesday, cutting their demands for a $2 trillion-plus measure by more than half in hopes of breaking a monthslong logjam and delivering much-sought aid.

President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday will meet with American workers and business owners hit by COVID-19 as he prepares to confront the pandemic that has taken a heavy human and economic toll when he takes office next month.