#federal-budget-cuts

#federal-budget-cuts

Last week, however, a scene worthy of Versailles unfolded: While Trump built his $300m ballroom, the US prepared to face widespread hunger. With Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) funding scheduled to run dry due to the government shutdown, the Trump administration not only refused to prevent the crisis it fought in court to deprive 42 million Snap recipients of their grocery money. Thankfully, a federal judge ruled against the government and ordered that Snap payments proceed.

Fiscal responsibility is about more than balancing a budget, it's about making smart, strategic investments that protect our community for the long term. Here in Silicon Valley, we know being enterprising means leveraging every resource to its greatest potential. Your county government has embraced that ethos - stewarding limited public dollars to maximize returns, strengthening our safety net and safeguarding the well-being of nearly 2 million residents.

as the Adams administration declined to send agency representatives to two City Council hearings, inflaming councilmembers who hoped to get answers about the administration's response to Trump's budget cuts and a proposed housing project in the Bronx. Thursday, NYC's Health and Hospitals (H+H) officials were due to testify in support of their " Just Home" project that would build 58 units of housing for formerly incarcerated New Yorkers with significant health needs.

Around 5% of a Travis County homeowner's property tax bill goes to Central Health. Those taxes must support health care for low-income and indigent residents. Central Health's new annual tax rate is 11.8 cents per $100 of valuation - an effective increase of more than 9% from last year. That means the average homeowner will pay around $64 more to Central Health on their next bill.

The Northwest Wildland Fire Fighting Compact enables its U.S. and Canadian members to share firefighting resources and technology when blazes exceed the capacity of a single jurisdiction. The partnership comes as California grapples with larger, faster and more frequent fires fueled by climate change - and as the Trump administration cuts the staff and budget of the U.S. Forest Service, the largest federal firefighting entity in the nation.

Just over four years ago, Andrew Cuomo resigned from office. Driven from the governorship over a cascading number of sexual-harassment allegations, he entered the political wilderness only to reemerge this year, when he decided to run for mayor. In the meantime, his little-known lieutenant, Kathy Hochul, became governor. A quiet political force in her own right - she has raised tens of millions of dollars and helped to resurrect a once-moribund statewide

Heather Colley and her two children moved four times over five years as they fled high rents in eastern Tennessee, which, like much of rural America, hasn't been spared from soaring housing costs. A family gift in 2021 of a small plot of land offered a shot at homeownership, but building a house was beyond reach for the 45-year-old single mother and manicurist making $18.50 an hour.

"The whole ecosystem that we have built around AI, that has been created by federal support, could soon be seriously undermined."

President Trump has followed through on his commitment to defund Planned Parenthood, leading to significant clinic closures due to Medicaid funding cuts.

"Across the board, our research showed that government actions to defund scientific work and conduct massive layoffs in science and health agencies are not being met with strong public support."

"For us, it's a triple threat... It's not just a budget cut. It's existential." - Naomi Fisher, co-founder of BFI, on the cumulative impact of funding cuts.

The forecast warns of "significant fire potential" in Northern California and the Sierra Nevada due to a pronounced warm and dry trend.

The loss of funding "could be huge" for public radio and television stations. NPR's CEO warned of stations "going dark," leaving Americans without access.

The termination of these scientists — a plan straight from the Project 2025 wish list — would end programs that form the bedrock of American conservation work.