Senator Mitch McConnell instead provided vague assurances that the Senate would "begin the process" of discussing the checks and two other issues that the president demanded lawmakers address.
Significant numbers of coronavirus patients experience long-term symptoms that send them back to the hospital, taxing an already overburdened health system.
Across the country, local governments plan to inoculate 50 million people against the coronavirus by early next year. But the vaccines have not officially been approved.
In a career spanning more than three-quarters of a century, he remained a futurist, reproducing fashions for ready-to-wear consumption and affixing his brand to an outpouring of products.
On Jan. 6, the vice president will preside as Congress counts the Electoral College's votes. Let's hope that he doesn't do the unthinkable — and unconstitutional.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received the Moderna Covid-19 vaccination on Tuesday at United Medical Center in southeast Washington, and urged the public to get vaccinated as well.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration's speed in distributing the coronavirus vaccine, and promised that once in office, he would increase the pace of distribution.
After Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, tried to force an immediate vote on increasing the size of the stimulus checks, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, blocked the measure, leaving its fate unclear.