Funds will be available help provide emergency shelter and services in western North Carolina

The right flank of the House Republican caucus has vowed to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker if he doesn't adhere to its demands.

House Republicans have buried anti-abortion provisions in must-pass federal spending bills.

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the funding increase into law in August, but Republicans in the Legislature are blocking bills required to authorize payments.

The right-wing House Freedom Caucus is leading a Republican push for significant cuts to appropriations bills.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast on Aug. 30.

The right wing would prefer another shutdown to a stopgap extension of government funding.

At least 15 current senators and representatives say reductions in funding to safety net programs should be discussed.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) wants to end the automated funding of the safety net program so Congress can start ‘managing it.’

American Rescue Plan funds are going to programs that assist students in the areas of mental health, academic achievement, career development, literacy, and life outside of the classroom.

Pennsylvania has been allocated $655 million under the American Rescue Plan to assist child care providers.

Hundreds of people have died as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine.

One Texas anti-abortion organization spent federal funding money on cruises and employee perks.

The House Freedom Caucus is pushing another anti-vaccine message as the current government funding resolution is set to expire on Dec. 3

Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would fund the government and raise the debt ceiling.

The Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act passed in the House with no Republicans supporting it.

Many of teachers unions are resisting in-person teaching in cities suffering enormous spikes in COVID cases.  

‘This effort is intended only to inflame tensions and divide us.’

The West Wing plan has drawn relatively little scrutiny.

Donald Trump has no intention of using defense funds for actual defense programs — he wants them for his wall.

Republicans are refusing to authorize back pay for hundreds of thousands of federal contractors, many of them in the lowest paid jobs.

‘You’re watching Mitch McConnell eat a manure sandwich in this whole process,’ former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) said on CNN Friday morning.

The Senate majority leader thinks it’s fine for Trump to do an end-run around Congress and steal disaster relief money to build his wall.