Highlights from President Donald Trump’s budget for fiscal year 2019, released Monday. International space station The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025 and to have private businesses running the place instead. Under Trump’s 2019 proposed budget, U.S. government funding for the space station would end by 2025. The government […]
federal budget
Posted inMaine, Nation / World
Trump budget would kill funds for many programs in Maine
President Trump released a proposed budget for the next fiscal year Monday that, if enacted, would have serious consequences across Maine. The sweeping plan again proposes to eliminate the programs that provide heating oil to low-income Mainers, legal aid to indigent citizens, and grants to towns and cities to rehabilitate housing, infrastructure, and services. It […]
advertisement
Posted inNation / World
Donald Trump proposes $4.4 trillion budget that keeps growing the deficit
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years. The growing deficits reflect, in part, the impact of last […]
Posted inNation / World
Donald Trump signs budget deal to end overnight government shutdown
Updated 8:40 a.m.: President Donald Trump has signed the budget deal. Trump tweets, “Just signed Bill. Our Military will now be stronger than ever before. We love and need our Military and gave them everything — and more. First time this has happened in a long time. Also means JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” The House narrowly passed […]
Posted inNation / World
Senate leaders announce 2-year budget deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Coverage of Congress and spending legislation (all times local): Updated 12:50 p.m. The Senate’s top Republican says there’s Senate agreement on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the pact, joined on the Senate floor […]
Posted inNation / World
House Republicans working to plan to avert another shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — The era of trillion-dollar budget deficits is about to make a comeback — and a brewing budget deal could mean their return comes just next year. In the meantime, House GOP leaders are grappling with the need to pass legislation to avert another government shutdown at midnight on Thursday. Talks on a […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
The shutdown is over so what is next?
WASHINGTON — OK, the shutdown is over. But no one should be fooled into thinking that this settles the big questions facing the country. Even if (a big “if”) the immigration laws are overhauled and the nearly 700,000 “Dreamers” stay in the United States, at least three large issues remain that neither party has yet […]
Posted inNation / World
Susan Collins and Angus King help broker Senate agreement for ending government shutdown
Maine’s two U.S. senators were once again at the center of negotiations to end a federal government shutdown. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia led a group of moderates from both parties that began meeting Friday, hours before funding for most federal offices lapsed. Gathering in Collins’ […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Acadia National Park closing operations as shutdown continues
Acadia National Park was in the process of closing its operations Sunday as the federal government shutdown moved toward its third day. Much of the park will remain open to the public, but if it snows, there will be no plows to clear the roads and parking lots, hampering access, Acadia spokeswoman Christie Anastasia said […]
Posted inNation / World
Senate talks fall short, shutdown extends into workweek
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown is set to sow more disruption and political peril Monday after the Senate inched closer but ultimately fell short of an agreement that would have reopened federal agencies before the beginning of the workweek. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said negotiations kept going late […]