Now That The Impeachment Probe Is Official, House Dems Must Ramp Up Other Oversight

Trump’s son-in-law sets up shop at FEMA as his portfolio balloons to include manufacturing, supplies and long-term planning.

With more than $800 million in federally backed properties, Kushner Companies could reduce its payments to zero under provisions of recovery bill.

The extent of Oscar Health’s work on coronavirus testing hasn’t been previously reported.

Hot off of singlehandedly ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, America’s Son-In-Law-In-Chief has put himself in charge of handling half of the White House response to the coronavirus crisis....

As the coronavirus crisis rages, the Trump campaign is squaring off against Democrats over voting rules.

The president’s family trusts all invest in a mutual fund whose largest holding is the drugmaker of Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine.

In a signing statement, the president undermined a key safeguard Democrats had insisted upon as a condition of approving $500 billion in corporate relief in the $2 trillion law.

Glenn Fine was removed from his position as acting inspector general at the Pentagon, making him ineligible for the spending watchdog role.

In a signing statement, the president undermined a key safeguard Democrats had insisted upon as a condition of approving $500 billion in corporate relief in the $2 trillion law.

Trump will argue that he can spend the bailout money however he wants, no matter what conditions Congress writes into the law.

The program had worked with labs in Wuhan, China, and around the world to detect deadly viruses that could jump from animals to humans.

Government experts must be able to focus on their jobs, not on staying in the president’s good graces.

House Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Sunday the House committee formed to oversee the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic will be “forward looking” as opposed to examining what was done in

“These are frail, medically compromised people,” said an attorney at the nonprofit Center for Medicare Advocacy, who opposes the change.

Unable to reach their clients, lawyers worry the government is taking little action, even with reports of widespread coronavirus symptoms inside.

They're concerned that the expectations the administration has publicly set are unrealistic.

As the coronavirus pandemic peak approaches, local officials say the federal government is ending support for COVID-19 community-based testing sites.

The new rules apply only to workers in critical infrastructure jobs, a broadly defined group that includes employees in fields from health care to financial services.

Big banks like JP Morgan Chase want to buy up oil and gas companies. That's a recipe for climate disaster.

With restaurants, hotels and schools closed, many of the nation’s largest farms are destroying millions of pounds of fresh goods that they can no longer sell.

Dozens of for-profit colleges that are among those most likely to benefit from stimulus funding face thousands of claims from students demanding their money...

The son of late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has come under fire over his handling of worker protection and the unemployment program.

The economy is in shambles, but fear not: the poster children for nepotism are on the case.

Unfilled jobs and high turnover mean the government is ill equipped for a public health crisis, said many former and current federal officials and disaster experts.

Groups Urge Senators to Rein in Trump Constitutional Abuses

The House will only come back if it has to pass emergency coronavirus response legislation, according to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the coordinator of the government’s coronavirus response, entered the crisis with thousands of unfilled positions and the leadership of its parent department...

Regulators have given banks the green light to use stimulus funds to pay off debts that individuals owe them.

The failure of oversight throughout the first term has set the stage for House Democrats’ weak performance during the coronavirus crisis.

Congress gave the IRS the job of sending out coronavirus rescue checks. But the underfunded agency is struggling, while for-profit companies like Intuit have started circling, hoping to convert…

Free money.That’s the enticing prospect hedge funds and other trading firms are pondering after realizing they too might be able to participate in a historic U.S. stimulus package to keep small...

Private-equity backed companies will see relief in the Fed's latest loan program, but critics are worried about how they'll spend the money.

What coronavirus crisis? Big Republican donors get a half-billion dollar, no-bid deal that one watchdog calls “a travesty that must be investigated and audited immediately.”  

A White House economist with close ties to UnitedHealth is helping oversee a program administered by the firm.

The Trump administration is taking steps to reduce costs and restrictions on farmers looking to hire migrant workers during the coronavirus pandemic, including lowering their minimum wages.

The NEJM has published a horrifying account of a health-care executive trying to evade what appear to be mafia tactics by the federal government.

White House economists are working on a major repeal of business regulations as President Trump pushes to "reopen" the economy, according to two people familiar with their work.

Several industry representatives expect the upcoming immigration suspension will exempt one of the largest sources of immigration at the moment — farmworkers.

White House economists are working on a major repeal of business regulations as President Trump pushes to "reopen" the economy, according to two people familiar with their work.

At least 44 migrants who were on the same deportation flight from the US to Guatemala this week have tested positive for Covid-19, two Guatemalan government sources told CNN.

"It is impossible to tell from the outside if this latest outrage is the result of incompetence, mean-spiritedness, or both."

Companies in their portfolios have a clear financial stake in how Trump handles the crisis.

The Department of Labor confirmed to VICE that workers who refuse to return to work out of a general fear for their safety will lose their CARES Act unemployment benefits.

Some businesses seeking coronavirus loans got to avoid flaky online portals or backed-up queues. Many other small businesses couldn’t get their loan requests submitted before the money dried up.

The first known U.S. death from the illness came in early February in California. Trump says he ‘strongly’ disagrees with Georgia’s governor on reopening some businesses.

The Office of Personnel Management is stonewalling their requests for information, lawmakers say.