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 ...
Senate to take up Trump spending bill as clock ticks down to government shutdown
A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday ...
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 ...
Here’s Where Trump’s Government Layoffs Are Targeted—As Judge Orders Reinstatement Of Thousands Of Fired Workers
Office of Community Planning and Development: The Trump administration is aiming to cut the office, an arm of the department ...
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 ...
What we know about the GOP government funding bill
Congress has approved a stopgap bill to fund the federal government through September 30 and avert a shutdown ahead of a ...
Tracking Trump’s overhaul of the federal workforce
CNN is tracking the chaotic and rapidly evolving firings and layoffs at federal offices in Washington and across the United ...
FACTBOX What’s in the Republicans' new six-month stopgap funding bill?
The Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives plan to vote on Tuesday on a six-month stopgap funding bill to ...
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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 ...
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.