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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announces $62M in funding for SNAP benefits for November

Days after declaring a state of emergency via executive order concerning the government shutdown, Maryland Governor Wes Moore announced the state will deliver $62 million to help fund SNAP benefits for November. “One of the first and most basic priorities of governing is to ensure that families do not go hungry,” Moore said in a statement. “We will continue to do everything in our power to protect our people in these difficult times. But no state can fill the enormous […]

todayNovember 4, 2025

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‘Don’t be complicit!’: Booker clashes with fellow Dems over police funding amid Trump’s ‘violation’ of constitution

Emotions were high on the U.S. Senate floor on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as Democratic senators clashed in a war of words over a dispute while trying to pass proposals that would boost funding for police departments nationwide. U.S. Cory Booker, D-N.J., objected to the bills containing federal police grants introduced by fellow Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of New Mexico, and Catherine Cortez Masto of New Mexico, arguing that the funding would not reach Democratic-controlled states like his in New […]

todayJuly 30, 2025

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Education Department funding freeze for summer and after-school programs is harming students and families, critics say

Elected officials and advocates are decrying ongoing cuts and funding freezes at the U.S. Department of Education, which they say are harming students educationally and families economically. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has made dismantling the Education Department a major priority. While he is constitutionally unable to eliminate the federal agency, which is led by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Trump has sought to handicap the department through mass layoffs and spending cuts, including funding already approved by Congress. Critics […]

todayJuly 16, 2025

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Jeffries ‘strongly’ urges more security funding for members of Congress after Minnesota political assassination

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, is “strongly” urging the Republican Speaker of the House to increase the funding allowance for security to protect members of Congress following the political assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband that left another lawmaker and his wife critically injured. “These shootings were not isolated incidents. Credible threats and acts of political violence have increased significantly over the last decade,” said Jeffries in a letter sent […]

todayJune 17, 2025

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Obama praises Harvard University for standing up to Trump despite $2.2B funding threat

Former President Barack Obama applauded Harvard University after the Ivy League institution refused to comply with a list of the Trump administration’s campus policy demands in exchange for continued federal funding. In a letter to the campus community published late Monday, Harvard President Alan M. Garber declared, “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.” The federal government’s requirements include a range of orders, from eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and cooperating with the government […]

todayApril 15, 2025

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Education Department threatens funding for public schools over DEI-but doesn’t clarify what counts as DEI

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday sent a memo to states receiving Title I funding threatening to withhold federal money from any public schools that do not eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The move is an escalation by the Trump administration in an effort to force public schools across the country to comply with an executive order—which characterizes DEI as “illegal discrimination”—signed by President Donald Trump. According to USA Today, the Education Department memo does not […]

todayApril 3, 2025

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A Georgia representative wants to withhold DC funding until Black Lives Matter Plaza is renamed

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) is on a mission to erase Black Lives Matter Plaza from Washington, D.C. This week, he introduced a new bill, H.R. 1774, to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, proposing to withhold certain federal funds from the District of Columbia unless Mayor Muriel Bowser renames the symbolic street. “To amend title 23, United States Code, to withhold certain apportionment funds from the District of Columbia unless the Mayor of the District of Columbia removes the […]

todayMarch 5, 2025

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Halle Berry shouts from the Capitol, ‘I’m in menopause’ as she seeks to end a stigma and win funding

WASHINGTON (AP) — Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age. The legislation calls for the federal government to spend more on clinical trials on menopause as well as the hormone therapy that is used to treat hot flashes and other symptoms. Berry, 57, shouted about menopause outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. She […]

todayMay 3, 2024

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Hakeem Jeffries calls on Republicans to release funding for Haiti

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday demanded that Republican lawmakers immediately back the release of millions of dollars in funding for Haiti as the Caribbean nation is beset by political violence and instability. “America needs to stand with the people of Haiti,” Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, told theGrio during his weekly presser. Jeffries said the money should have been released on Wednesday. Haiti has seen a rise in violence, deaths and kidnappings since late February as armed gangs members […]

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