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#coronavirus relief bill
  • Corrupted: Confirming Our Fears About the PPP
    January 15, 2021
    | Caitlin MacNeal and Neil Gordon
    New pandemic loan data reveals just how badly the program was mismanaged
  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: The Democratic Policy-Smorgasbord Mistake
    January 14, 2021
    | David Dayen
    Democrats are talking themselves into trying to pass their entire agenda at once. There’s a far easier path.
  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Pandemic Recovery in a Plutonomy
    January 5, 2021
    | David Dayen
    The optimistic case for economic growth masks who those benefits might be reserved for.
  • Letters From an American
    Before We Say Goodbye: Trump Undercuts Relief Bill
    December 27, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    On December 21, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, a $2.3 trillion bill that pulled together a number of different pieces of legislation, including a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill and a $1.4 trillion appropriations bill (which included 12 separate annual appropriations bills). Today’s news is that Trump is refusing to sign the bill into law.

  • Democracy & Government
    Unsanitized: $2,000 Check Battle Heads to an Endgame
    December 24, 2020
    | David Dayen
    Plus, Pfizer and the government make a deal.
  • congress
    Unsanitized: Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue
    December 23, 2020
    | David Dayen

    Congress, after nine months of dithering, passed a COVID relief bill, attached to a year-end omnibus that funds the government until next September. Into all this walks Donald Trump.

  • Letters From an American
    The White House Naughty and Nice List
    December 23, 2020

    Trump stands in front of the long-fought relief bill and issues some controversial pardons.

  • Economy & Work
    Unsanitized: Congress Again Taxes the Time of Benefit Recipients
    December 22, 2020
    | David Dayen
    The ridiculous hurdles one must go through to survive.
  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: COVID Relief Success Depends on Vaccination Success
    December 21, 2020
    | David Dayen
    The unemployment provisions start to fade in mid-March and are gone by April. If things work out and we start rolling out the vaccine widely in spring, this will have been a successful effort.
  • Money & Politics
    Unsanitized: The Tax Time Bomb That Congress Can Defuse...
    December 17, 2020
    | David Dayen
    And how McConnell suddenly needs a bill to save his Senate majority.


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