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The Senate voted Wednesday to pass a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that provides for $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans, and includes billions of dollars in lending and grant programs designed to help businesses, workers and municipalities.
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The Senate voted 90-8 Wednesday to approve a bill that ensures paid leave benefits to Americans pushed out of work due to the coronavirus shutdown.
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The Trump administration is backing direct payments to American workers to help people cope with the economic shutdown with the national coronavirus response.
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Several major internet service providers will take steps to accommodate the use of remote technologies that students, workers and public health officials will rely upon during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
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President Trump’s proposal to cut payroll taxes through the end of the year would boost corporate revenues.
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The Department of Homeland Security will release an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural work visas – a move that will benefit Virginia’s seafood processing industry.
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A change in a Department of Education funding formula could impact students in five Virginia localities.
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House and Senate negotiators have come to an agreement on an emergency funding bill to combat the coronavirus.
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The DEA has announced a proposed rule that will ensure healthcare providers can use telehealth to diagnose and treat patients suffering from substance use disorders.
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Chris Bolling, late of Terry McAuliffe’s Common Good VA PAC, and former executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia, has joined Team Bloomberg.
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