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  • 88% of children covered by monthly payments starting in July

    Josh Boak, The Associated Press|Updated May 19, 2021

    WASHINGTON (AP) – The Treasury Department said Monday that 39 million families are set to receive monthly child payments beginning July 15. The payments are part of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which expanded the child tax credit for one year and made it possible to pre-pay the benefits on a monthly basis. Nearly 88% of children are set to receive the benefits without their parents needing to take any additional action. “This tax cut sends a clear and powerful message to American wor...

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    Photos of migrant detention highlight Biden's border secrecy

    Nomaan Merchant Jonathan Lemire and Josh Boak, The Associated Press|Updated Mar 24, 2021

    President Joe Biden's administration has tried for weeks to keep the public from seeing images like those that emerged Monday, March 22, showing immigrant children in U.S. custody at the border sleeping on mats under foil blankets, separated in groups by plastic partitions. Administration officials have steadfastly refused to call the detention of more than 15,000 children in U.S. custody, or the conditions they're living under, a crisis. But they have stymied most efforts by...

  • Photos of migrant detention highlight Biden's border secrecy

    Nomaan Merchant and Jonathan Lemire and Josh Boak, Associated Press|Updated Mar 22, 2021

    President Joe Biden's administration has tried for weeks to keep the public from seeing images like those that emerged Monday, March 22, showing immigrant children in U.S. custody at the border sleeping on mats under foil blankets, separated in groups by plastic partitions. Administration officials have steadfastly refused to call the detention of more than 15,000 children in U.S. custody, or the conditions they're living under, a crisis. But they have stymied most efforts by...

  • Senate passes President Biden's 1.9 trillion dollar bill

    Josh Boak and Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press|Updated Mar 10, 2021

    WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden wants America to know that he’s from the government and he’s here to help. The massive bill could be approved by Congress this week, possibly as early as Tuesday, March 9. "When I was elected, I said we were going to get the government out of the business of battling on Twitter and back in the business of delivering for the American people," Biden said after the huge bill passed the Senate on Saturday. "showing the American people that their government can work for them.” Taken togethe...

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    Biden to meet Republicans who propose lesser virus aid package

    Aamer Madhani Lisa Mascaro and Josh Boak, The Associated Press|Updated Feb 4, 2021

    President Joe Biden is to meet Monday, Feb. 1, with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed $618 billion in coronavirus aid, about a third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking as congressional Democrats are poised to move ahead without Republican support. The Republican group's proposal focuses on the pandemic's health effects rather than its economic toll, tapping into bipartisan urgency to shore up the nation's vaccine distribution and vastly expanding virus testin...