Albany pumps the brakes on MTA funding plan in rebuke of Hochul’s move to ditch congestion pricing
Albany city council members on Friday put the brakes on a final round of funding for the MTA in a sharp rebuke of Gov. Kathy Hockal’s sudden move to eliminate congestion pricing. State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said lawmakers would leave the state and end the legislative session without an agreement to replace $1 […]
Biden singles out conservatives over Ukraine funding in meeting with Zelenskyy
During a brief meeting overseas with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, President Biden made a point of specifically criticizing Republicans over the fight over financial aid to Ukraine. Biden met with Zelensky in Paris the day after the anniversary of the Normandy landings, telling the Ukrainian leader, “You’re not giving in. You’re not giving in […]
Gavin Newsom’s Budget Slashes Public Safety Funding, Expands Climate Programs Amid Massive Budget Deficit
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California proposed cutting from the state’s public safety budget to address a $27.6 billion fiscal deficit while also expanding climate-related programs. Newsom proposed revisions to the 2024-25 fiscal budget in May which cut $80 million from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and $15 million from Department of Justice […]
Democrats fume over Republican plan to cut IRS funding, defund Direct File
Democrats are infuriated by Republican proposals to cut funding to the IRS and end funding for the agency’s new free online tax filing system. Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee in a statement on Thursday called the GOP’s latest Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) budget bill “disastrous” and slammed Republicans for risking […]
Four Democrats buck party on funding bill despite White House veto threat
Four House Democrats on Wednesday overrode party opposition to pass the annual Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction funding bill, days after the White House threatened to veto the bill over a partisan rider they called a “poison pill.” The Republican-led House of Representatives voted mostly along party lines Wednesday morning to pass a […]
House Republicans pass VA, military construction funding bill
House Republicans on Wednesday passed their first budget bill for fiscal year 2025, which lays out a blueprint for the Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction and includes partisan riders on areas such as abortion that are unpalatable to Democrats. The House passed the bill 209-197 on Wednesday morning, despite a veto threat from […]
House GOP proposes IRS funding cuts, defunding free tax filing system
House Republican appropriators are proposing to cut funding to the IRS and eliminate a free online tax filing system that the Treasury Department recently made permanent and promised to expand to other states. The House Appropriations Committee’s latest Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) bill “[prohibit] Funds used by the IRS to develop government-run tax […]
EXCLUSIVE: Comer Targets Funding For Radical, Pro-Hamas Student Group Backing Campus Protests
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent a letter Wednesday to National Students for Justice in Palestine, calling on them to provide the committee with information regarding any possible funding of pro-Hamas propaganda and encampments on college campuses across the U.S. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the letter, in which Comer says […]
English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds | School funding
According to a leading British economic think tank, per-pupil education spending in England has been frozen for an unprecedented 14 years since the Conservative Party came to power. In its latest analysis of school spending, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said budgets per pupil are now at 2010 levels in real terms, but teacher salaries […]
Exclusive — U.S. Chamber of Commerce Defies Congressional Committee Chairman Demanding Funding Information
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has decided to defy a powerful House Republican chairman who is investigating the source of funding for the Chamber’s foundation, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. A House Ways and Means Committee aide told Breitbart News that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce failed to provide relevant information to the committee’s chairman, […]