Dems weaponize Medicaid anxiety in bid to take down Trump-backed federal funding plan
House Democrats are seizing on concerns over Medicaid and Medicare as a way to oppose Republicans' plan to fund the government.
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Dem governor to headline major fundraiser in key presidential primary state stoking 2028 speculation
Dem Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, a leading figure in the Trump opposition, sparks 2028 speculation with news that he will headline major party fundraiser in the key primary state of New Hampshire.
Secretary of state says 83% of USAID programs are being canceled
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said early Monday that 83% of programs funded by U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, are being canceled, in the latest for the beleaguered agency that provides humanitarian aid overseas and has become the target for the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Rubio said on his
Trump admin tackling Biden ‘backlog’ of campus antisemitism complaints: ‘Immediate priority’
The Trump administration has declared an "immediate priority" of investigating antisemitism and violence at U.S. colleges after the Biden administration left a "backlog of complaints."
Greenland’s leader says Trump’s threats are fueling mistrust of U.S.
Facing President Trump’s repeated assertions that Greenland should be brought under U.S. control, the island’s Prime Minister Mute Egede said that Mr. Trump was, “very unpredictable, in such a way that people feel insecure” as global power dynamics shift. Egede’s interview with Denmark’s public broadcaster, DR, was published Monday, one day before voters on the
What to Know About the House’s 6-Month Stopgap Funding Bill
Congress has until March 14 to avert a shutdown. WASHINGTON—Republicans have released their proposal for extending government funding, but it faces hurdles in both chambers of Congress. The 100-page continuing resolution (CR)—Capitol Hill parlance for a stopgap funding bill—would primarily extend funding past the March 14 deadline to Sept. 30. But it also contains provisions
State Department Cancels Most USAID Contracts
The secretary of state announced the move. The U.S. State Department has canceled some 83 percent of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on March 10. “The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in