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Trump Administration Memo Proposes Cutting State Department Funding by Nearly Half
The draft plan is part of a process involving the agency and the White House. It would eliminate almost all funding for ...
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With no staff left at LIHEAP, the federal utility assistance program, advocates worry about funding
About $378 million of Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding remains to be distributed. Without federal staff, ...
Trump administration denies WA request for bomb cyclone disaster aid
The Trump administration on Friday denied Washington’s request for federal disaster relief to recover from last year’s bomb ...
End Medicaid Money Laundering
A new Paragon Health Institute study on Medicaid financing exposes how state governments use provider taxes to extract much ...
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. and El Salvador Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Man
The idea of raising taxes on rich Americans has caught the Republican Party between its populist ambitions and low-tax ...
White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, and eliminating funding for nearly ...
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How cyber vulnerabilities and workforce cuts threaten the crisis lifeline program
A bipartisan, bicameral measure is hoping to prevent cyber incidents from limiting access to the 988 Suicide and Crisis ...
State Department wants staff to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias during Biden’s term
The initiative is aimed at rooting out religious bias in the State Department's policies and hiring practices with a specific ...
FEMA denies Washington state disaster relief from bomb cyclone, governor says
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied Washington state’s request for emergency relief funds to help repair an ...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia: The US wants him back, but El Salvador refuses to return
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele refuses to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported by the US, saying he lacks ...
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USDA ended its local food programs. A look at how farmers, schools and food banks are coping
Thousands of schools, farmers and food pantries in the Midwest and Great Plains planned on federal dollars over the next year ...