House Dems Press Trump Budget Chief on Welfare Cuts
Calling the plan’s suggested cuts to welfare programs malicious and “intended to do harm,” House Democrats gave President Donald Trump’s latest budget proposal a cool reception Tuesday.
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Trump Seeks $8.6 Billion for Border Wall in 2020 Budget
The budget President Donald Trump proposed Monday would cut spending by $2.7 trillion over 10 years, make certain welfare programs contingent on a work requirement and seek $8.6 billion to build his long-promised wall along the southern border.
Read moreWashington Fiddles as Budget Deficit Burns Cash
The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Trump’s watch and few in Washington seem to care. And even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting deals decades ago has disappeared, replaced by bitter partisanship and chronic dysfunction.
Read moreTrump Budget Seeks $100 Million for Ivanka’s Project
President Trump’s 2020 budget proposal will include $100 million for a global women’s fund led by his daughter Ivanka Trump.
Read moreChief Justice Roberts Weighs Ethics Code for High Court
At a hearing Thursday on the high court’s budget, Justice Elena Kagan told lawmakers that Chief Justice John Roberts is looking into the possibility of drafting a code of conduct that applies only to Supreme Court justices.
Read moreSenate Counseled on Nuclear Threats From China, Russia
Warning that the country could soon find itself lagging behind in an arms race, defense experts told Congress Thursday that it is time to update nuclear treaties with Russia and China, and to give America’s nuclear arsenal a facelift.
Read moreConservationists Demand Half-Billion for Endangered Species
Lambasting government backlogs and shoestring protection budgets, more than 215 organizations submitted a letter Tuesday asking Congress to support endangered-species conservation with a budget of $486 million.
Read moreMigrant Crisis Funds
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday that includes $5 million in an emergency fund to address local costs arising from immigration or human trafficking situations.
Read moreWhite House: Trump Will Sign Budget, Declare Emergency
President Donald Trump intends to sign a bipartisan funding package aimed at averting a government shutdown but will declare a national emergency at the same time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor Thursday.
Read moreNational Debt
In an uptick attributed to President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax cut and increased domestic as well as military spending, the national debt topped $22 trillion for the first time Tuesday.
Read moreHouse Hearing Puts Spotlight on Dilapidated US Schools
Reminded about the human toll of their funding decisions, House lawmakers heard unsettling testimony Tuesday on the efforts by public schools to educate America’s youth in crumbling and moldy classrooms.
Read moreBudget Talks Fraying on ICE Detention Beds, Border Wall
President Donald Trump lashed out at congressional Democrats on Monday, following a flurry of comments from key lawmakers indicating that talks to avoid another government shutdown have broken down.
Read moreLikely Deal Would Give Trump Fraction of Desired Wall Money
Congressional bargainers are working toward a border security deal amid indications that the White House is preparing to accept a bipartisan agreement that would give President Donald Trump a fraction of the money he’s demanded for his proposed southern border wall.
Read moreJudge Sympathetic to Federal Workers Suing Over Shutdown
The federal judge overseeing a trio of lawsuits over the recent government shutdown expressed skepticism Thursday about some of the government’s arguments in the case, saying agencies have an uphill climb in court.
Read moreVirginia Teachers March on Capitol for More Funding
nspired by similar efforts in other parts of the country, thousands of Virginia educators marched on the state capitol Monday to demand increased school funding and better pay for teachers.
Read moreShutdown Projected to Cause $3B Permanent Hit to Economy
The federal government shutdown will cause slight permanent harm to the economy — about $3 billion — according to a report Monday by the Congressional Budget Office.
Read moreTrump Drops Wall-Funding Demand to Reopen Government
Congress on Friday approved a short-term funding bill to end the partial government shutdown, after leadership and the White House struck a three-week funding agreement that does not include money for President Donald Trump’s border wall.
Read moreHouse Bill to End Shutdown Vacated After Voice Vote
The House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would reopen the government through February, but the measure is unlikely to end what has become the longest government in U.S. history.
Read moreJudge Nixes Challenge Over Unpaid Shutdown Work
Denying federal employees a pass on working unpaid during the government shutdown, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that bending to their demands would be “profoundly irresponsible” and throw the nation into “disarray.”
Read moreTrump Indicates He Won’t Declare Emergency ‘So Fast’
President Donald Trump tamped down expectations that he is close to declaring a national emergency to get the money he desires to build his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall as a three-week impasse closing parts of the government continued on Friday.
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