House expected to pass COVID relief bill next week

The legislation includes an increase to the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

This is Day 33 of the administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.


Remembering Rep. John Lewis on his birthday

ABC's "Nightline" co-anchor Byron Pitts remembers the late Rep. John Lewis on what would have been his 81st birthday.


How much retribution do the GOP senators who voted for impeachment face?

On ABC's "This Week," FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver talks about the retribution seven Republican senators who voted in favor of former President Donald Trump's impeachment might face.

Trump is expected to make his first speech since leaving the White House next week.


Biden makes surprise visit to Bob Dole ahead of cancer treatment

Biden is making a surprise visit to meet with his longtime Senate colleague Bob Dole in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

Biden “is visiting his close friend,” according to the White House, following the 97-year-old’s announcement on Thursday morning that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. In a tweet, Dole said he would begin treatment on Monday.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez



Trump to speak at CPAC

Former President Trump will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next week, his first major appearance since leaving office last month, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to ABC News.

Trump’s speech next Sunday afternoon will address the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, as well as Biden’s immigration policies, the source added.

-ABC News' Will Steakin


Republicans across country support Biden COVID relief plan, White House aide says

White House Senior Advisor and Director of the Office of Public Engagement Cedric Richmond said this morning that Biden has gotten support from Republicans across the country for his COVID relief plan -- even if GOP members of Congress in Washington are balking, especially at the projected cost.

"We have many Republican mayors, we have Republican governors, we have more than 50% of Republicans in this country, 46% of Trump supporters. There is just one place we don't have anybody who has signed on yet and that's in the United States Congress, but we are still working every day to see if we can earn Republican support for the plan. But what we won't do is slow down and not meet the needs of the American people by just waiting, whether it's obstruction or just inertia, President Biden is not willing to wait," Richmond said on CNN.

Richmond argued that past COVID-19 plans have been reactionary, but Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris want to “get in front of it,” with the nearly $2 trillion package they’ve proposed.

"We're going to keep moving on in a bipartisan manner, but we are not going to fail the American people," he added.

Richmond dodged a question when pressed on the fate of the $15 dollar federal minimum wage in the bill, given that both Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz., have said they would not vote for COVID-19 relief that included the increase.


"We will [what] happens in the Senate, because Senator Sanders is pushing it. We know that there is some reluctance, but look, that's not the real question. The real question is why do people in this country, why do we think it's okay people go to work for 40 hours week and still make less than the poverty level? That should not be acceptable in this country. If you work 40 hours a week, you should be able to sustain your family," Richmond said. "So that's where we are focused on."

-ABC News' Molly Nagle