Lawmakers from around the Pacific Northwest are reacting on Tuesday to the Trump administration's freeze for federal funding and grants, including one Democratic U.S. senator urging Republicans to delay a committee vote on President Donald Trump's nominee for the very budget office that issued the pause.
The White House Office of Management and Budget says its program freeze is limited, but states report widespread disruption in online Medicaid portals.
State Medicaid programs across the country reported Tuesday they had lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid. By the late afternoon,
The largest healthcare strike in Oregon's history continued, with one local lawmaker joining the picket line Sunday afternoon.
Senator Ron Wyden, speaking Sunday at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting in Palm Springs, detailed his stance on data privacy, a federal privacy law, consumer data brokers and, for good measure, his thoughts on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg cozying up to ...
Billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent won Senate approval Monday to become US Treasury secretary, placing him at the forefront of implementing Donald Trump's economic agenda -– which is already
Watch live as RFK Jr. faces questions from senators in his confirmation hearing as President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary despite criticism levied by Democrats for his handling of self-employment taxes.
Hedge fund manager Scott Bessent — who has vowed to crack down on off-the-rails federal spending and help avert a “crushing $4 trillion tax hike” on Americans by year’s end — was
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his prior public statements on a range of health policy issues in a fiery confirmation
A notice from the Trump Administration calling for a temporary pause in federal grant and loan programs sent state leaders scrambling Tuesday as the uncertainty
A federal judge has paused a sweeping new plan from the Trump administration to halt categories of federal spending.