Kentucky’s Woodford County Public Schools, which serves middle-income families in rural communities outside of Lexington, may need a short-term state loan to make payroll before its ...

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, ...

As the name suggests, the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) helped reinforce Congress’s control over the executive branch’s spending of funds and provided an explicit pathway for the President to request ...

State policymakers should prioritize rental assistance investments, not only to protect current recipients and but also to expand access to more households. Investing in these programs strengthens ...

Our communities are safer when each person has a stable place to call home. Policies that improve access to housing assistance together with robust, voluntary services have been shown to both prevent ...

Harmful Republican Megabill Fails Families, Children, and Communities ... ... ...

The harmful Republican megabill, enacted through budget reconciliation on July 4, imposes substantial new costs on state and local governments that will be hard for them to shoulder even when times ...

The Republicans’ harmful megabill, enacted through budget reconciliation on July 4, 2025, will raise costs for families and take away health coverage, food assistance, and other essentials from people ...

The fiscal year 2026 Agriculture appropriations bill recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee includes full funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, ...

A “pocket rescission” involves transmitting a rescission request so late in the fiscal year that the funds would expire before Congress acts. No such loophole exists. The Administration’s “pocket ...