Although they weren't successful in ultimately including it as part of President Biden's COVID relief package, neither Biden nor congressional Democrats have given up on raising the federal minimum wage. The question is: Raise it just how much?

Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) pushed back on questions about the lack of bipartisan support for the Biden administration’s COVID relief bill, noting that “you have to have people on both sides who want to do it.”

Officials from President Biden on down to the local level are criticizing decisions by governors of Mississippi and Texas to lift their statewide mask mandates in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Senate Democrats should overrule Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough's decision that legislation to raise the federal minimum wage cannot be included as planned as part of President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package, according to a chorus from the left.

The Biden administration and its allies continue to fight against worsening odds to keep alive Neera Tanden's nearly moribund nomination to head up the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Democratic lawmakers in both House and Senate are looking to overcome opposition within their own ranks to push the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Joe Biden's drive for national unity reached what might be realistic limits this week in the US Senate, where the legislative framework for President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package made it into law by the slimmest margin possible -- and with no Republican support.

In his Inauguration, President Biden gave voice as much to fighting for the truth as he did in his Oath to defending the Constitution itself. It would be a tough job and tall order.

At a time when even elected Republicans are embracing fabulist conspiracy theories, here's one more: "the Biden crime family."

Although it was President Donald Trump who incited, and egged on, his supporters to storm the US Capitol Wednesday -- it fell to his democratically elected successor to address the nation regarding the abhorrent horror unfolding on Capitol Hill.