Senate negotiators to mark up first batch of 2025 funding bills next week
The powerful Senate Appropriations Committee remains on schedule to consider its first package of fiscal 2025 budget proposals next week, even as Republicans and Democrats struggle to reach an overall agreement on how to fund the government for much of next year. The committee will consider annual budget plans for the Departments of Agriculture, Veterans […]
Alzheimer’s Researcher Indicted for $16 Million NIH Funding Fraud
A federal grand jury has reportedly indicted Hoau-Yan Wang, 67, a professor of medicine at the City University of New York, on charges of falsifying data to fraudulently obtain $16 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of a controversial Alzheimer’s disease drug and diagnostic test. Ars […]
Nvidia rival Groq AI set to raise $300M in funding round
Groq AI, a buzzy startup competing with AI chip supplier Nvidia, is set to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in a new funding round, The Washington Post has learned. The Mountain View, California-based company, which is not affiliated with Grok, a chatbot developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s startup xAI, is seeking to raise $300 […]
Vets deserve better than confusion on defense funding and VA staffing
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was one of the last vestiges of bipartisan unity in Congress. Our elected officials stick together on almost everything these days, and differences are often put aside to support America’s troops. until now. Today, the bill has become a multi-billion dollar game of bumbling, with those who have given […]
House approves trio of funding bills as spending fight looms
The House of Representatives approved three government funding bills on Friday, but the White House has already threatened to veto the bills if they reach President Biden’s desk, setting the stage for a tough spending fight later this year. The three measures, aimed at funding overseas operations and the departments of Defense, State and Homeland […]
Bans on Foreign Funding for Ballot Measures Gain Momentum in Congress, States
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Opponents of foreign funding of U.S. ballot measures expect momentum at both the federal level and in states. In May, the House Administration Committee advanced a bill to amend federal election law to prevent foreign nationals from contributing to ballot initiatives by closing a loophole, since federal law and most state laws […]
House votes to prohibit DHS money from funding Mayorkas salary
House Republicans on Wednesday approved a bill that would block Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds from going to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ salary, the latest example of Republicans targeting the embattled top Cabinet official. The House of RepresentativesFixes Democratic lawmakers, led by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), are campaigning against the fiscal 2025 Department of Homeland […]
House votes to defund Mayorkas’ salary in DHS funding bill
The House passed a bill on Wednesday that would block Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from taking pay. This is an amendment by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., to the House appropriations bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2025 that would block funds from the bill from being used to […]
Stop funding China’s pathogen research
Despite COVID-19 causing over a million deaths, we still do not know how the pandemic began. Thanks to the systematic destruction of evidence by the Chinese Communist Party, we may never know for sure. What we do know is that the People’s Liberation Army has made “achieving biological dominance” a high priority and that part […]
House Oversight Committee demands group behind anti-Israel student encampments reveal funding for ‘pro-Hamas propaganda’
WASHINGTON – House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Tuesday demanded that the leadership of the American Muslim Association for Palestine (AMP) turn over any information related to its “pro-Hamas propaganda and funding of illegal camps” at universities across the country. In his letter, Rep. Comer (R-KY) asked AMP Executive Director Osama Abu-Irshaid to provide […]