President-elect Biden Promises More COVID Relief

President-elect Biden, who will be inaugurated as the nation’s 45th President on Wednesday, last night outlined another new COVID relief package which he will ask Congress to approve within hours of taking his oath of office. The proposal he is submitting will include $2000 stimulus checks for qualified Americans as well as automatic extensions of…

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On The Horizon with a Federal Trifecta

Well, it seems the unlikely has happened and Georgia voters turned the formerly-red state solid blue this week and with it, flipped the US Senate to democratic control. With the White House, US House of Representatives and now the US Senate all being in democratic control, what can we expect to see coming out of…

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FFCRA Paid Leave Allowed, Not Required

Another important provision of the New Stimulus Bill, signed into law on December 27, is the extension of the paid sick and family leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Those provisions were set to expire on December 31, 2020, but have now been extended with a caveat – it is voluntary…

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Biden To Ask For 100 Day Masking

President-elect Joe Biden announced yesterday in a CNN interview that one of his first official acts as president will be to issue an Executive Order asking the country to commit to wearing masks for 100 days. In the same interview, Biden also revealed that he asked Anthony Fauci to stay on as Director of the…

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Looking Forward: The Biden Plan for Small Business

Proceeding under the assumption that current presidential election results will not change significantly enough to alter the outcome announced to date, it may behoove us to take a closer look prospectively at a Biden Presidency. In that vein, we could expect one of the first actions in a Biden Presidency would be to rescind a…

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