August 11, 2011 – 7:00 am
With the logjam of the debt limit negotiations behind us, you’d think that would clear the way for other business to start moving through Congress, right? Not necessarily.
(This post is excerpted from an article in the Aug. 8 issue of Local/State Funding Report.) In light of the general climate around discretionary spending and fiscal responsibility, the outlook for federal spending on children’s programs is dim, according to…
As much as I’d love to talk about something — anything — other than the debt ceiling debate, it’s unavoidable. There’s too much at stake and too many funding streams that could be impacted for us to ignore the ongoing…
The debt ceiling debate has been a fast-moving target for the last several weeks, with life seemingly breathed into a different proposal every day as the clock inexorably ticks down. Today marks the deadline the president has identified for the…
Today was the big day. President Obama met again with Congressional leaders to try and wind down debt talks as the Treasury Department’s Aug. 2 deadline approaches. Hanging in the balance are millions of grant dollars that could be impacted…
(This story is excerpted from the June 27 Local/State Funding Report.) Cities and towns are scrambling to support their neediest citizens in light of additional federal spending cuts looming in the next round of budget talks, already-reduced budgets, dwindling Recovery…
(This article was excerpted from the May 16 issue of Local/State Funding Report.) With Congress back in session this month, the budget and deficit talks have started again in earnest.
In a series of eleventh-hour efforts to avoid the government shutdown, budget negotiators met through the night on Wednesday and President Obama called House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., back to the White House…
Budget negotiations are hardly expected to be a walk in the park, but the current spending conversations taking place on Capitol Hill could indicate that this year will be one to remember.
As expected, this afternoon the Senate failed to pass two competing spending measures that would have funded the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. In a curious type of silver lining, the defeat of these bills may…
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