Parker: America is a republic with a legislative sausage factory
- Government funding talks are ongoing, with no agreement reached in Congress, raising fears of a shutdown by March 14th, 2025.
- Democrats and Republicans have not reached an agreement on government funding, risking a shutdown by March 14, 2025.
- Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune emphasized the need for a plan to prevent a government shutdown while balancing Trump and Democratic demands.
- Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune noted that the government must be funded to avoid a shutdown, while debates about budget cuts continue.
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Parker: America is a republic with a legislative sausage factory
Republicans control both the House and the Senate, and while they largely agree on a shared set of funding and tax priorities for the federal budget, they have differing opinions about how to arrive at those goals. Specifically, they continue to debate whether they should try to pass everything altogether in one massive bill or instead seek to prioritize some items for a more urgent bill and then follow up with a second bill shortly after. Watch…
Kim Wilcox: Slashing NIH funding means slashing innovative research
The 70-year-old model that has made the U.S. the leading research innovator in the world is at risk. The DOGE group led by Elon Musk has funding for the National Institutes of Health in its sights, and it’s easy to imagine more federal funding will soon follow. Of the $75.2 billion universities spend on research each year (2017 figures), $40.2 billion comes from the federal government. Simply, the innovations that lead to live-saving cancer trea…
🏛️ Capitol Reset: Has DOGE Gone Too Far?
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House Republican spending plan, coupled with DOGE mayhem, will hurt Americans
The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Over the last month, we’ve all been reminded that the federal government isn’t some faceless entity. The federal government, which the Trump administration is in the midst of haphazardly slashing, is made up of mothers, fathers, scientists, laborers, careg…
DOGE cuts complicate government funding talks and raise shutdown fears
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are struggling with a key question as they stare down a fast-approaching deadline to fund the government: How do they fund federal agencies that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle?
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