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, […]
‘Irish Gay Rights’ And ‘Trans Reproduction’: Your Tax Dollars Are Funding A Laundry List Of Left-Wing Books
American tax dollars are funding an array of book projects covering topics like “trans reproduction” and the “neglected queer history” of homosexuality in post-colonial Ireland, federal records show. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) spends hundreds of thousands of tax dollars a year funding academics to write full-length books on a variety of subjects, […]
A fight over SNAP funding could derail the farm bill
The partisan fight over federal food assistance programs has posed a major challenge for both chambers of Congress as they try to craft a massive farm bill by an early fall deadline. Congress has just four months until the Sept. 30 deadline to finish work on the bill, after the two parties agreed last year […]
Oregon Officials Accused of Cutting Funding to Christian Group over Statement of Faith
Oregon nonprofit Christian mission organization Struggling The court complaint alleges that state agencies placed conditions on funding when hiring workers who didn’t share their beliefs. The organization, known as 71Five Ministries in Medford, Said Its mission is “to share God’s story of hope with young people through trusting relationships in every appropriate way.” Taking its […]
Melinda French Gates blasts ‘frustrating’ lack of funding for women’s rights in veiled shot at ex-husband Bill Gates
In an incendiary essay Tuesday, Melinda French Gates lamented the “frustrating and shortsighted” lack of philanthropic support for women’s rights and implicitly criticized her ex-husband, Bill Gates. French Gates, who received $12.5 billion after her surprise departure from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last month, said her new charity will donate $1 billion over […]
Elon Musk’s xAI gets $6 billion in new funding and announces valuation
Barron’s Roundtable panelists discuss whether software makers are ready for AI. Billionaire Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startup xAI announced on Sunday that it had raised $6 billion in Series B funding, raising its post-money valuation to $24 billion. Investors in xAI’s $6 billion Series B round included Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, […]