2025 • Sep 20
In a win for science, NASA told to use House budget as shutdown looms
The House budget still cuts science at NASA, but not as deeply as the White House sought. ...
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2025 • Sep 11
House pushes to conference first batch of 2026 funding bills with Senate
The House is making a push to formally conference government funding legislation for fiscal 2026 with the Senate, breaking with recent norms as Congress stares down a Sept. 30 deadline to prevent a go...
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2025 • Sep 08
GOP, Democrats ramp up blame game ahead of shutdown deadline
Lawmakers are laying the groundwork for making sure the other party gets the blame in the event of a government shutdown at the end of the month. As both sides work out a game plan for funding the gov...
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2025 • Aug 15
Trump tax law could trigger about $500B in Medicare cuts over decade without fix: CBO
Recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that Medicare spending would see steep cuts over roughly the next decade absent congressional action, following passage of President Trum...
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2025 • Aug 11
Appeals court orders Trump administration restore public funding tracker
A federal appeals court on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to restore a public database showing how federal funding is apportioned. The administration disabled the database in March as it s...
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2025 • Aug 07
Reeves and Starmer to roll the pitch for tax rises in a difficult autumn budget
Exclusive: The Guardian has been told that discussions about increases include a near-certain gambling levyThe chancellor and prime minister will begin to pitch-roll tax rises and reforms fr...
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2025 • Aug 06
Trump's megabill could deplete Social Security's trust funds faster: analysis
President Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and spending package could speed up insolvency for Social Security’s trust funds, according to a new analysis from the Trump administration's chief actuary for t...
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2025 • Aug 06
Are 'pocket rescissions' legal? Congressional watchdog says 'no'
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said this week that so-called pocket rescissions, a controversial maneuver that President Trump’s budget office is considering to reduce spending, are n...
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2025 • Aug 06
Rachel Reeves needs to put up taxes to cover £40bn deficit, thinktank says
NIESR suggests a rise of 5p in the pound on basic and higher rate of income tax would fill the budget gap Rachel Reeves will ...
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2025 • Aug 02
Senate approves more than $180 billion in 2026 funding before August recess
The Senate on Friday passed its first tranche of government funding bills for fiscal year 2026 ahead of its upcoming August recess, but Congress is bracing for a potentially messy fight to prevent a s...
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2025 • Aug 01
Senate strikes deal to approve funding bills ahead of August recess
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced Friday afternoon that the chamber will be moving forward to pass its first tranche of government funding bills for...
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2025 • Aug 01
Senate panel rejects Trump cuts to NIH, other health agencies
The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected the Trump administration’s massive proposed funding cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), advancing a measure that would increase the agency’s bu...
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