Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that “if the House decides to go in a partisan direction it will lead to a Republican-caused shutdown.” With Congress on August recess, the far-right House Freedom Caucus on Monday issued expected but unlikely-to-be-met demands for a stopgap funding bill that would avert an October government shutdown. Members of […]
“The Pentagon and the military-industrial complex have been plagued by a massive amount of waste, fraud, and financial mismanagement for decades. That is absolutely unacceptable.” A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation Wednesday that would require the Pentagon to return a portion of its enormous and ever-growing budget to the Treasury Department […]
JUNEAU – The Association of Alaska School Boards is extremely disappointed and gravely concerned by the unjustified veto of half of the one-time $175 million in education funding outside the BSA. This action further jeopardizes a constitutionally mandated public education system that will continue to crumble and collapse due to the chronic under-investment of both […]
“Everything I’ve heard about it, it’s a prescription for trouble,” the Senate Finance Committee chair said of the House speaker’s debt reduction panel. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden on Friday warned that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s commission tasked with reducing the nation’s growing debt is a “prescription for trouble” that will likely result in the slashing […]