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On 22 July the House adopted a fiscal 2027 budget resolution by 216 votes to 214. It sets up a third party-line reconciliation bill this Congress, worth about $95 billion: $73 billion for the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, mostly for the war with …
The Technology Modernization Fund was created in 2017 to lend agencies money to replace old IT systems, with the loans repaid from savings. …
At a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing on 2 September, VA Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence put the cost of the department’s new …
In June 2026 New York broke ground on the main construction stage of Second Avenue Subway Phase 2. It’s 1.8 miles of tunnel from 96th Street …
Every two years the Government Accountability Office publishes a short list of the parts of the US government most likely to waste money or …
In June 2026, US immigration judges granted asylum in 5.5% of the cases they decided, 771 people. They denied 94.1%. At the end of the Biden …
The Ankara Summit Declaration, adopted on 8 July 2026, runs to six numbered paragraphs. A year earlier at The Hague, allies had agreed the …
GAO’s latest review of federal legacy IT looked at 11 critical systems across ten agencies. Together they cost about $754 million a year to …
In January 2026 the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security changed its rules to allow exports of Nvidia’s H200 chip, and …
The 2027 filing season, for tax year 2026, will be the first in which employers report qualified overtime pay on W-2 forms, under a new box …
