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A $48 billion aid package for restaurants and other pandemic-ravaged businesses faces steep hurdles in the Senate.

The Senate is likely to vote next week on a $48 billion aid package to help restaurants and other pandemic-stricken businesses.

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.

Feb. 11—Como estudiante excepcional y formidable polemista en la preparatoria Miami Palmetto, Ketanji Brown Jackson podía haber elegido entre muchas carreras, pero ya sabía exactamente lo que quería hacer.

WASHINGTON — Senate Small Business Chair Benjamin L. Cardin is hoping to attach another, final round of COVID-19 aid for restaurants and other small businesses that rely on in-person customers to the delayed fiscal 2022 appropriations package lawmakers are aiming to pass by March 11.

Senate Small Business Chair Benjamin L. Cardin is hoping to attach a final round of COVID-19 aid for restaurants to the delayed fiscal 2022 spending package.

A bipartisan group of senators pressed to pass a defense funding bill and said it would help deter Russian aggression.