Federal government shutdown threatens SNAP food aid
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Food aid for 42 million imperiled by shutdown politics
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The 2025 federal government shutdown, in the first year of Trump's second term, is one of the longest in U.S. history.
Thousands of federal workers have been furloughed, with thousands more still on the job without pay. Programs like SNAP are set to run dry of funding come Saturday.
The Federal Reserve is poised to cut interest rates again this week, but the environment surrounding that decision is unusually fraught for the central bank.
A health-care battle tarnished the president’s first term. Here he goes again.
Once again, Washington finds itself in a completely avoidable mess. The federal government is shut down, not because Republicans refused to act, but because Democrats chose politics over people. House Republicans did our job.
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The White House is targeting blue states for funding cuts and using government platforms to pin the shutdown blame on Democrats.
Influential Cuban dissident leader José Daniel Ferrer, recently exiled from Cuba, says that the island's fractured and weakened opposition movements need to shift strategies and oppose the government from outside the Caribbean nation.