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On Teacher Appreciation Day, Trump cuts affecting profession in a huge way

Tuesday, May 6 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration has made dozens of cuts that some teachers say could impact their profession in a “huge way,” according to educators in terminated programs who spoke with ABC News.Before Teacher Appreciation Day, which is celebrated on Tuesday as part of... Read More.

Trumps 2026 budget proposal calls for $163B in cuts to federal spending

Friday, May 2 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The White House on Friday released President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which calls for $163 billion in cuts to federal spending.Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, in a letter to Congress alongside the proposal, said... Read More.

Were all ticking time bombs: Budget cuts gut 9/11 health protections as community braces for crisis

Wednesday, April 30 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- The 9/11 health program that monitors and treats thousands of people exposed to toxic dust during the 2001 terrorist attack is under threat — again.A wave of staffing cuts and agency turmoil has thrown the World Trade Center Health Program... Read More.

Warren investigates impact on students, teachers from Education Dept. cuts

Thursday, April 24 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Save Our Schools campaign is launching a comprehensive investigation into the Trump administration's effort to close the Department of Education."I'm opening this investigation to hear directly from students, parents, teachers, and borrowers who are being hurt by Trump's... Read More.

RFK Jr., intent to focus on chronic disease, continues to be dogged by impacts of HHS cuts

Thursday, April 10 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a towering sandstone arch in rural Arizona with a group of Navajo Nation leaders, the impact of his agency’s cuts... Read More.

Death sentence: Advocates blast $1.3 billion in State Department food aid cuts

Tuesday, April 8 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The State Department has moved to squeeze lifesaving foreign aid dramatically for countries around the world, according to several U.S. officials familiar with the matter.The latest cuts include the termination of all remaining U.S. Agency for International Development contracts supporting the delivery... Read More.

Speaker Johnson cuts deal with Rep. Luna over parental proxy voting

Monday, April 7 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Speaker Mike Johnson and Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna say they have cut a deal to end the fight over proxy voting for new parents, which will re-open the House floor after nearly a week of legislative paralysis.House Republican leaders will... Read More.

Democrat Kamlager-Dove takes aim at DOGE ahead of potential State Department cuts

Wednesday, April 2 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- As Democrats continue to express frustrations over Elon Musk's outsized role in reshaping the federal bureaucracy, a new effort on Capitol Hill takes aim at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) while proposing guardrails to reassert congressional oversight authority over the executive... Read More.

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