How Each Senator Voted to Fund the Government Through September
The Senate voted to advance a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown on Saturday.
Federal budget deficit hits record $1.1T in first 5 months of fiscal year
New data from the Treasury Department shows the federal deficit is $318 billion larger in the first five months of fiscal ...
What Does a Shutdown Have to Do With the Budget or Elon Musk? Here’s a Guide.
By design, budget reconciliation mostly addresses the parts of federal spending that are not part of the appropriations ...
US October-February budget deficit hits record $1.147 trillion
The U.S. budget deficit for the first five months of fiscal 2025 hit a record $1.147 trillion, the Treasury Department said ...
Breaking Down The Federal Government's $1.9 Trillion Healthcare Spending: Where The Money Goes And Why It Matters
The federal government spent $1.9 trillion on healthcare programs and services in 2024–the single largest category of federal ...
Government shutdown soon? Senate Democrats say they won't back House bill
Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the federal government rather than support a House-approved budget resolution to ...
Schumer to support GOP funding bill, unwilling to risk government shutdown as deadline nears
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending ...
What we know about the House GOP government funding bill
House Republicans are hoping to vote Tuesday on a stopgap bill aimed at funding the federal government through September 30 ...
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What's in the House's Full-Year Continuing Resolution?
The full-year CR is roughly equivalent to FY 2024 funding with a few anomalies, including the removal of all Congressionally Directed Spending (“earmarks”) and other smaller shifts in funding between ...
Education Department Fires Over 1,300 Workers, Gutting its Staff
The Department of Education announced it was cutting about 2,000 staff members, seemingly the first step in fulfilling ...
NIH research cuts threaten the search for life-saving cures and jobs in every state
Ripple effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on U.S. medical research promise to reach every corner of America.