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Congressional Budget Office Projects $2.7B Pell Grant Shortfall
The Pell Grant program has a $2.7 billion shortfall heading into the coming fiscal year, according to new projections from the Congressional Budget Office.
Trump’s tariffs, nominees and budget plans dominate Congress this week
The House continues to struggle with questions about a budget package while the Senate plows through more Cabinet nominees.
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2025 Budget Stakes: High-Income Tax Cuts, Price-Hiking Tariffs Would Harm Families
High-income households and profitable corporations would grow even wealthier under Republican proposals for trillions of ...
Trump push to use tariffs to pay for tax cuts faces opposition in Congress
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing a plan to explicitly use revenue from higher tariffs on imported goods to help pay for ...
In Trump’s quest to close the Education Department, Congress and his own agenda may get in the way
Democrats in Congress were quick to jump on Trump’s plan. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a member of the Health, Education, ...
Dysfunctional U.S. Budget Process Deserves Some Blame For Pause Chaos
Lost amid this week’s panic is the role the government’s dysfunctional budgeting process contributed to the cacophony and ...
US judge blocks Trump from freezing federal spending for 22 states
The temporary restraining order will be in place until further order of the court while the judge considers whether to issue ...
THE WEEK5d
What is 'impoundment' and how does it work?
Congress is locked in a contentious funding battle with an overzealous president who has spent his first weeks in office working ... that made its way to the United States Supreme Court, as ...