Nancy Pelosi

The president was in denial, and now his sunny assessment of the situation is disproven.No, I’m not talking about the news that President Donald Trump and the first lady tested positive for Covid-19 not long after Trump mocked Joe Biden for excessive mask-wearing and insisted that America was “rounding the…

Late Thursday evening, President Trump (or possibly NBA reporter Shams Charania) broke the news that both he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus.The ramifications stemming from a positive test are gargantuan. Joe Biden, having faced Trump in the initial presidential debate on Tuesday, has so…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed Friday she's been tested for coronavirus out of an "abundance of caution" and raised concerns about the accuracy of tests at the White House that "led to" President Trump's exposure."Out of an abundance of caution I was tested. I don't have the results yet but…

Posted October 2, 2020 at 11:36amSpeaker Nancy Pelosi offered no indications Friday of imminent changes to congressional operations after President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19.“The distancing, that’s hard, the distancing because people are trying to communicate about legislation and the rest,” the California Democrat…

The coronavirus, which causes the disease called COVID-19, has killed more than one million people worldwide and infected over 34 million. It has spread to at least 188 countries. This week, US President Donald Trump tested positive after his close adviser Hope Hicks also contracted the disease, and Trump said…

House Democrats passed a coronavirus bill on Thursday after hitting an impasse with the White House.  The bill is a scaled-down version of legislation that House Democrats passed in May but is still unlikely to become law because Senate Republicans and the White House don't support it. It includes another…

Topline The House of Representatives passed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill Thursday evening in a 214-207 vote, even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin continued to push for a last-minute, bipartisan compromise on the next round of aid—the vote is a symbolic step from…

Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The House on Wednesday called off a vote on a $2.2 trillion COVID-19 economic stimulus package to allow more time for negotiations. The decision comes after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin emerged from a 90-minute meeting without an agreement on a new…

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he will talk to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about coronavirus stimulus again Wednesday and is "hopeful" about the prospects of a deal."I say we're going to give it one more serious try to get this done and I think we're hopeful that we can get something done,"…

Posted September 28, 2020 at 3:43pmANALYSIS — In their news conferences and floor speeches, representatives and senators say they feel a sense of urgency about stemming the spread of the coronavirus, and about helping Americans weather the economic crisis the virus has caused.On Sept. 17, for example, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats planned to…