An agreement to add $8 million to the state’s rainy day fund and study the impact of extending tax cuts on income from exporting products tied to intellectual assets helped shore up Republican support in the House.
President Biden
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Pace of spending for pandemic aid? Try $43,000 every second
President Biden now needs to figure out how to distribute the $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief.
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What’s inside the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill passed by Congress
The House has passed a sweeping pandemic relief package over Republican opposition
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: U.S. vaccine hoarding is alienating the world
The world had hoped ‘America First’ would end when Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump as president. It hasn’t.
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Maine stands to get billions in relief from Biden’s American Rescue Plan
Funds for a wide variety of groups, interests and needs are included in the $1.9 trillion package that Congress is expected to approve Wednesday.
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Our View: Biden’s Rescue Plan sends aid where it’s needed
Millions of families, in Maine and across the country, can’t wait for a slow economic recovery to reach them.
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Biden marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ by signing voting rights order
The bill includes restricting partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts and expanding access to voter registration.
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White House says relief checks will go to most people who got $600 payments
A White House official says 98% of U.S. households that received COVID-19 relief checks in December will also qualify for the next round of payments.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Maine will open vaccine eligibility to school staff regardless of age
The announcement by Gov. Janet Mills was welcomed by educators, though the state warned that without additional vaccine it could slow the timeline for vaccinating older residents.
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Republicans take aim at Biden’s health care nominee over abortion rights
Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general, is taking heat for his defense of abortion rights from Republicans looking to define him as out of the mainstream.