12 entries in the ledger
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the senior Democrat on House Appropriations, disclosed on September 3, 2026 that the Defense Department and the National Institutes of Health had signed an interagency agreement giving the Pentagon...
Chief Justice John Roberts on Aug. 21 issued an administrative stay freezing a court order that would have required work on President Trump's White House ballroom to stop at midnight. The order set no new deadline, so...
Congress appropriated $41 million this year for the CDC’s Alzheimer’s disease program and $246 million for its Office on Smoking and Health, but no one is staffing either, the Associated Press reported. The same is true...
U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang on Monday, Aug. 17, blocked the Trump administration from relocating FBI headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, ruling the decision was “not in accordance with...
Senate appropriators announced a bipartisan stopgap on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026 funding the government through Dec. 11 and blocking, for that period, the Office of Management and Budget rule requiring federal grants to be...
The Office of Management and Budget asked Congress for additional National Park Service funding in part 'to recoup costs associated with support of events celebrating America's Semiquincentennial,' according to a July...
President Trump signed the Secure America Act on June 10, 2026, directing nearly $70 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the remainder of his term. The House cleared the budget...
The Justice Department announced on May 18 the creation of an Anti-Weaponization Fund drawing $1.776 billion from the federal Judgment Fund, describing it as "a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who...
The Senate parliamentarian ruled on May 17 that $1 billion in White House security funding could not ride on a roughly $72 billion budget-reconciliation package funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and...
On April 30, 2026, the House approved the Senate's Department of Homeland Security funding bill by voice vote and President Trump signed it, ending a partial shutdown that had begun February 14 and run 76 days, described...