Live music venues were among the first businesses to close during the COVID-19 pandemic and will be among the last to reopen. In the meantime, many are facing financial ruin.
Axios Re:Cap digs in with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who alongside Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex) is sponsoring a bailout bill aimed at independent operators.
Thousands of people held protests in at least a dozen American cities this weekend, days after the Trump administration announced it would send more federal agents to Chicago and Albuquerque in an extension of Operation Legend. A month ago protests over the killing of George Floyd had begun to dwindle — now, they’re back.
Senate Republicans on Monday rolled out their proposal for the next federal stimulus, and they have some major disagreements with the Democrats who they'll need to get it passed.
Perhaps no issue will be more contentious than extra unemployment benefits — $600 weekly payments passed in the March CARES Act that are due to expire on Friday. Axios Re:Capdigs in with the Wall Street Journal's Andy Duehren.
This week, lawmakers in Congress are trying to piece together the next stimulus package as many benefits, like unemployment insurance and eviction forgiveness, expire. Democrats and Republicans both agree that a new bill is necessary, but there's been a lot of back and forth about the specifics — and they're running out of time.
