CQ Roll Call Policy Briefs

The first tranche of cash -- $350 billion in pandemic relief -- has been released by the Treasury department to help state and local coffers. But many GOP states want to use it to supplement tax revenues setting up a fight. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman reports.

The Biden administration is finally reviewing rules to protect workers from COVID-19. CQ Roll Call's Emily Kopp explains how it is pitting industry against unions.

Medicare’s looming financial crisis is the biggest hurdle to a telehealth expansion as lawmakers and advocates seek to capitalize on momentum from the pandemic’s shutdown on in-person care.

The Biden administration provides some more detail on its goal of setting aside 30 percent of U.S. land and water for conservation purposes by 2030. CQ Roll Call's Joseph Morton reports.

The Facebook Oversight Board’s decision to uphold the social media platform’s suspension of former President Donald Trump won plaudits from just about nobody. And it put Facebook squarely within the sights of Washington partisans. CQ Roll Call's Dean DeChiaro reports.

President Biden is seeking $1.2 billion in border infrastructure. As CQ Roll Call's Caroline Simon reports, lawmakers have vastly different ideas of how that should be spent. 

New analysis from Penn Wharton finds that President Biden’s family aid package — which would expand child care, education and more — would cost more than advertised if passed, and the proposed tax increases won’t raise as much as expected. Doug Sword reports.

Cryptocurrency experts are closely watching a legal battle between Ripple Labs Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission, anticipating the case could establish precedent and clarify the regulatory landscape for digital coin offerings. CQ Roll Call's Keith Lewis reports.

The White House and lawmakers are building momentum on what they see as a better policy solution to address the nation’s rising rates of maternal mortality and morbidity. CQ Roll Call's Sandhya Raman reports.

Experts worry that relying on pediatricians' offices to vaccinate kids for COVID-19, as the administration plans to do, could exacerbate inequalities. CQ Roll Call's Ariel Cohen explains.