Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker voted against a bill that avoids a government shutdown. All four are Democrats who plan to run for president in 2020 against Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump told reporters the White House could pull money from Army Corps of Engineers projects. Democrats want to limit his options if he declares a national emergency to fund a border wall.
Corporate leaders across America watching President Donald Trump fight with Democrats are getting the jitters over the prolonged shutdown that has derailed several business priorities.
National parks, partially open during the federal government shutdown, are facing mountains of trash and human waste. Yosemite officials closed some campgrounds after finding human feces and urine along roads.
The House Freedom Caucus and other conservatives are urging President Donald Trump not to sign a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown because it has no money for his border wall.
Sen. Pat Roberts says negotiators have reached a tentative agreement on the outstanding issues with the farm bill. Congress needs to pass the bill before the end of the year.
An increasingly fierce debate about how best to stop wildfires in California could wind up endangering the farm bill, which is crucial to fund crop insurance programs for farmers in Kansas and Missouri.
During his trip to California, President Donald Trump announced an additional $500 million in funding in the 2018 farm bill for forest management to help prevent fires. He was wrong.
Well-connected Texans have remained quiet about the project’s future after it was cut from the budget, leaving Fort Worth’s local officials to lobby on its behalf in Washington.
Congress passed legislation Wednesday to send $1.7 billion in disaster relief aid to North Carolina and South Carolina after Hurricane Florence — the first influx of federal funding for long-term recovery efforts but not the last.
Congress authorized the project for up to $526 million in federal money, but the Trump administration says Panther Island doesn’t qualify for Army Corps Civil Works money, and must now compete with a long list of other non-essential priorities.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office warned in April that ICE has consistently underestimated the cost of running its detention program. Two months later, the Trump administration asked Rep. Kevin Yoder to sign off on another $200 million for the agency.
The Texas Republican bucked his conservative cohorts on Capitol Hill, voting to fund military pay raises, along with funding increases for a host of domestic programs.
Congressional Republican leaders are confident the government has enough money in FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund to help with Hurricane Florence relief. But some Democrats think more money will be needed.
Immigration lobbyists have pitched Rep. Kevin Yoder’s office on a proposal to pay for hurricane disaster relief by allowing high-skilled workers from India and China to obtain green cards after decades of waiting.
Congress is poised to continue spending $25 million a year into finding a way to stop citrus greening. But some on the farm bill conference committee want to eliminate the special category created for citrus research.
Congress is unlikely to heed pleas from the Trump administration and California Republicans to pass controversial forestry measures in the 2019 Farm Bill, which lawmakers are trying to finalize this month.
Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s budget director, is trying to use his influence to help a South Carolina business that could be badly wounded by the president’s trade policies.
The Trump administration has a new plan to reduce the risk of forest fires by enabling better collaboration with state and local officials. But it’s short on details and ducks issues like climate change and logging.
Texas Republican Kay Granger is known for sending big money home to her Fort Worth district. Now she’s running for a bigger budget-writing role, in a party that’s mantra is cutting spending.
In declaring his signing of an executive order to declare a national emergency, President Trump said on Feb. 15, "it's been signed many times before...there's rarely been a problem."
