By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

By ALAN FRAM – Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers on Thursday came close to shaking hands with a reduced bipartisan compromise that will provide a new $10 billion to fight COVID-19, a deal that could reach final congressional approval next week . The price was lower than an earlier $15.6 billion deal between the … Read more

By ALAN FRAM – Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Key Senator Joe Manchin on Wednesday unveiled the broad outlines of a reconfigured social and environmental package that will direct half its resources to cutting federal deficits, a day after President Joe Biden proposed his own more ambitious, but stalled plan to realign. Manchin, DW.Va., whose … Read more