Treasury Secretary: COVID-19 Economic Aid ‘Still Needed’
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Tuesday a second massive round of aid addressing the economic impact of the coronavirus pandem...
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Trump Again Proposes Big Cut to Foreign Aid
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is proposing a 21% cut in aid the United States provides to foreign countries, wit...
Trump Presents Election-Year Budget Based on Lofty Growth Assumptions
With months left before U.S. elections, President Donald Trump unveiled a budget roadmap on Monday that abandons key deficit cutting...
$1.4 Trillion Spending Package Crammed with Unrelated Provisions
House leaders on Monday unveiled a $1.4 trillion government-wide spending package that's carrying an unusually large load of un...
Report: Trump Orders Substantial Cut in National Security Council Staff
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked for a substantial cut in the National Security Council staff, Bloomberg reported late on Frida...
US EPA Blasts California Air Quality, Threatens to Withdraw Highway Funds
The Trump administration on Tuesday escalated its fight with California over environmental issues by threatening to withdraw billion...
House Democrats Offer Bill to Fund Government, Avoid Shutdown
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a stopgap government funding bill Wednesday that would maintain current sp...
Lawmaker: Congress Would Restore Ukraine Military Aid
This story originated in VOA’s Ukrainian Service. Nataliya Leonova reported from Washington and Myroslava Gongadze reported from Kyi...
US Senators: Congress Likely to Restore Aid to Ukraine
Republican and Democratic senators said Tuesday they expected the U.S. Congress would pass legislation restoring $250 million in mil...
Greatest Head Count in US History Nearly Ready for Launch
With just a few months left before America starts taking its biggest-ever self-portrait, the U.S. Census Bureau is grappling with a...
State Department to Assess Foreign Assistance Programs
The State Department says it will assess its programming and redirect all funding on foreign aid, after U.S. President Donald Trump...
