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Gov't Management and Budget Proposes Automatic Grant Rule Changes
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (364+ words) The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and 41 federal grantmaking agencies have proposed a sweeping overhaul to how roughly $1 trillion in federal financial assistance flows to state and local governments, universities, and nonprofits. On May 29, a proposed joint interagency rule…...
Trump Push to Eliminate EDA Clashes With Congress' Reauthorization
2+ week, 4+ day ago (242+ words) The agency is also facing significant uncertainty. The Trump administration proposed eliminating EDA in both its fiscal 2026 and fiscal 2027 budget requests, even though Congress reauthorized the agency in January 2025 and authorized $3.2 billion over five years for certain EDA programs and…...
Small Business Program Funding Fight: Congress vs. Administration
3+ week, 4+ day ago (566+ words) Legis1 Small Business Program Funding Fight: Congress vs. Administration Congress and the Trump Administration are locked in a budget clash over the Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) program, a 45-year-old federal initiative that helped small business owners secure more than $6.8 billion…...
Native American Contractors Doubles Lobbying Spending
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (393+ words) Legis1 Native American Contractors Association Doubles its Lobbying The Native American Contractors Association (NACA) filed a lobbying disclosure showing $170,000 in expenditures for quarter two of 2026, matching the prior quarter and marking a sharp increase over 2025 spending levels. NACA is pushing federal…...
Congress Limits Defense Secretary's Officer Promotions
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (632+ words) Legis1 Congress Wants to Rein in Hegseth's Authority Over Personnel Congressional committees are advancing provisions that would limit Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's discretion over senior military officer personnel decisions by requiring greater transparency and congressional notification. The proposals, included in…...
House Committee Examines DEI Impact on Medical Training
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (241+ words) The agency's enforcement effort began earlier. On May 14, the DOJ announced the conclusion of its investigation into Yale School of Medicine, finding that it had discriminated based on race in admissions. The DOJ found that at Yale, Black and Hispanic…...
Senate Confirms VA Tech Leaders Amid IT Crisis
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (344+ words) Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), the committee chairman, set a collegial tone, opening with an apology for the hearing's delayed start and framing the nominations as essential to the VA's mission."Accountability is not an option, and it's essential," he said....
Congressional Staff Navigate Research Oversight
4+ mon, 5+ hour ago (484+ words) The Congressional Research Service quietly updated one of its most practical publications this month. This guide tells congressional staff where to find the documents, databases, and training they need to do their jobs. The report, R43434, is now in its 24th version....
Tribal Forest Funding Falls Short of Federal Obligations
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (417+ words) The BIA's Division of Forestry is the primary federal agency responsible for implementing those obligations. It works alongside the nonprofit Intertribal Timber Council to conduct independent assessments of tribal lands every ten years. IFMAT I, conducted more than three decades…...
Federal Mismanagement of Native American Trust Funds
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (695+ words) A new Congressional Research Service report on federal management of tribal trust funds comes at a moment when the Trump administration is proposing deep cuts to the very agencies responsible for fulfilling that obligation. The federal government holds two categories…...