The Latest Breaking News from Roger Wicker

"More than half of the 177,300 restaurants waiting for an RRF grant will close in the next few months," group warns

WASHINGTON — Deficit-concerned senators blocked the Senate from considering a $48 billion aid package for restaurants and other small businesses Thursday, likely dealing a fatal blow to a months-long effort to provide a final round of relief for industries that suffered major revenue losses during the pandemic.

The Senate is taking up a bill that would tax companies like Google and Amazon to support low-income Internet access.

Senate Democrats said they'll combine new aid for Ukraine with a COVID-19 aid measure that stalled earlier this month.

The Senate may soon test the bipartisan limits on pandemic spending as Democratic leaders prepare for action on a small-business aid package.

Senators pressed Defense Department leaders to send more weapons to Ukraine more quickly, with the goal of defeating Russia.

The House passed a $55 billion package of aid to restaurants, food trucks, bars, caterers, brewpubs, bakeries and pandemic-ravaged industries.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s new defense budget request is more sizable than many observers had expected, and Congress is all but certain to beef it up further.

With inflation eroding the power of the dollar more by the day, how much Biden's proposed defense budget would actually buy is up in the air.