Tag: Federal Budget
GOP governors pushing block grants for Medicaid, policy analysts worry millions...
Among the many Republican-backed provisions to cut federal spending is a proposal to transform Medicaid into block grants. If enacted, some worry the change could leave millions without coverage.
PolitiFact exposes budget lies–from both sides of the aisle
PolitiFact, the nonpartisan fact-checking arm of the St. Petersburg Times, this week evaluated key talking points about the federal budget made by both Republicans and Democrats.
Perlmutter blasts House for passing bill to cut 800,000 federal jobs
Congressman Ed Perlmutter today issued a scathing statement criticizing the House of Representatives for passing a spending bill that could put nearly a million federal employees out of work.
Obama budget cuts funding for elderly services
The Obama administration has proposed cutting funding for programs that go directly to senior services in the 2012 proposed budget, meaning many older Americans may lose federal aid to help pay for things like heat, food and public transportation.
Proposed federal budget holds good news and bad for AIDS patients
While Republicans and Democrats in Congress wrangle over a continuing resolution to keep the federal government working, HIV/AIDS activists are bracing for cuts and discussing president Obama’s proposed 2012 budget.
VIDEO: Polis says cut European military presence to balance budget
Colorado Congressman Jared Polis this week offered an amendment to reduce the size of the U.S. military presence in Europe from more than 80,000 troops to 35,000, including an immediate reduction of 7500 troops in the next six months. His amendment, which would have reduced government spending by hundreds of millions of dollars, was defeated by the House.
Polarized Washington sets new low in failing to extend unemployment benefits
Congress has never before let federally extended unemployment benefits drop with an unemployment rate so high: That is the takeaway from a searing new...
Obama Admin to yank state’s $3 million immigrant detention subsidy
Colorado is set to lose approximately $3 million in federal funds that are used to cover the costs of detaining undocumented immigrants in the state, according to current budget documents released this month.
Abstinence-only funding not dead if Congress plays ‘hide the salami’ again
Reproductive health advocates cheered the news Friday that President Barack Obama cut two $100 million abstinence-only sex education programs from the federal budget in lieu of more effective, comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention programs.
But the real test of wills comes in the Congressional conference committee on the federal budget where one Democratic member has a penchant for playing "hide the salami" with funding for the controversial chaste-until-marriage program.
Obama budget proposal increases annual NREL funding by 8 percent
Details of the Obama administration’s $3.4 trillion federal budget released Thursday revealed a big bump for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.