Federal Budget
TSA shutdown | Power Line
From The Hill newspaper, Airline CEOs ask Congress for TSA agents to be paid during shutdown. “Congress” isn’t the problem. Senate Democrats refuse to put up a handful of votes so that TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, and a…
8 miles high
From FOX-26 TV (Houston), Hobby Airport warns of 2-hour TSA wait due to government shutdown. On Twitter (X) I was seeing reports of 4- and 5-hour delays for security screening at Houston’s second airport. To the extent…
The shutdown that wasn’t | Power Line
From The Hill newspaper, House sends funding package ending partial shutdown to Trump’s desk. What shutdown? It turns out that large parts of the federal government were “show down” for the past three days. Funding for…
Shutdown averted, for now | Power Line
News from Washington: the “shutdown” has been kicked down the road for two more weeks. From Politico, Senate passes $1.2T government funding deal — but a brief shutdown is certain. The “T” stands for “trillion.” If the U.S.…
Another day another investigation | Power Line
A roundup of federal investigations of fraud in Minnesota, Health & Human Services (HHS):HHS probes Minnesota’s use of billions in federal social service funds amid fraud concerns: report. Labor: Labor Department sending…
271,000 fewer bureaucrats | Power Line
The sentence of the day, courtesy the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Federal government employment is down by 271,000 since reaching a peak in January. That figure is not an artifact of the government shut down, but…
A Bad Year For Nonprofits?
Has 2025 been a disastrous year for nonprofits? Allegedly so: For nonprofit organizations and charities — which the administration and Congress have scrutinized, criticized and stripped of federal money — it’s been a repeat…
Shutdown 2026 | Power Line
I remain convinced that the Democrats’ 2025 government shutdown was mostly a dry run for a much more substantial shutdown that they contemplate for next year. They wanted to know whether a shutdown would work for them…
The meaning of “shutdown”
In the end (if this is the end) what was it all about? The record-long federal government shutdown (43 days, over six weeks) could end as early as tonight, if the House of Representatives goes along with the deal passed by…
Lingering shutdown | Power Line
It looks like Congress took the holiday off today, seeking to reassemble tomorrow (Wednesday) to pass the legislatiion needed to end the 42-day (six-week) federal government shudown. From the New York Post, House Speaker Mike…
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