Politics & Policy

The House has approved a $2.2 trillion rescue package, rushing it to President Donald Trump for his signature.

Wolf's office said the state had rescinded a waiver granted to the governor's former cabinet supply company after inquiries from Spotlight PA and PA Post.

The taxpayer money will be spent on city payroll and operating testing sites as well as other emergency operations.

The Wolf administration has granted all of Energy Transfer's waiver requests.

The legislation includes direct payments to Americans, an aggressive expansion of unemployment insurance and billions of dollars in aid to large and small businesses.

It's not clear whether Pennsylvania has granted any or all of the company's requests.

Last-minute objections are holding up a massive aid package that President Trump had been expected to sign.

State police and other officials now have the power to order “non-life-sustaining” businesses to close. They say so far, they haven’t really had to use it.

Pennsylvania lawmakers voted Wednesday to delay the state's primary election by five weeks to June 2, potentially past the spike of the state's spreading coronavirus cases.

Philadelphia Managing Director Brian Abernathy describes efforts by the city and partners to help residents and businesses weather the coronavirus pandemic.

McConnell said of the legislation that, "in effect, it is a wartime level of investment," adding that it would come up for a vote later Wednesday.

Delaware County doesn’t have a health department, and Democratic county officials say that’s a problem in the time of coronavirus.

The scale of the shortfall will become clearer in about a week, an official said, when final revenue numbers for March are released, coming in “many millions under estimate.”

Mayor Jim Kenney denounced those who would first look after their own financial interests over the greater public good during the current public health crisis.

Many Republicans said they felt conflicted about balancing their duties as elected officials with their responsibilities as individuals to stop the spread of coronavirus.