The package includes a new round of jobless payments and $284 billion for small businesses via the Paycheck Protection Program.

Sanders's proposal would establish universal benefits through a government-run program and outlaw most forms of private insurance.

Sanders and Schumer noted Walmart and Wells Fargo repurchased billions of dollars in shares at about the same time they cut jobs.

Two bipartisan measures designed to bring down Obamacare insurance premiums will be left out of a year-end spending bill after Republicans agreed with the party leaders to let debate slip into next month.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is pushing to keep alive the idea of including a repeal of Obamacares individual mandate in the tax overhaul plan.

Jerome Powell, a Republican, and Trump's choice to chair the Fed may have an edge in passing Senate confirmation, even though he wasnt the preferred choice of some Republicans.

The Senate adopted a fiscal 2018 budget resolution Thursday that House GOP leaders agreed to accept, a show of unity aimed at speeding consideration of President Donald Trumps plan to enact tax cuts.

The Trump administration was sending conflicting signals about the pact reached by senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, which also faces ambivalence from some Republican senators and outright hostility from many House Republicans.