Trump’s tax and spending bill passed in July provided $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers.

More can, and should, be done to improve the transparency and integrity of how local governments help fund Medicaid, but it’s hard to imagine how Medicaid could survive without them. Medicaid is ...

Nonprofit Work for America is helping to place former federal workers in new roles in state and local government, after the largest reduction in the federal workforce in history. Recent data from the ...

President Donald Trump’s new “Cyber Strategy for America,” a seven-page document with six policy pillars intended to guide federal cybersecurity efforts, offers limited detail about how those ...

The federal government remains shut down, in what is now the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Many federal workers have missed paychecks, including air traffic controllers, who are working unpaid.

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Will this year's midterm elections be fair? It seems like a simple question, but many state and local voting officials from both parties are worried about the possibility of federal interference. Will ...

A U.S. Park Service employee cleans up trash on the National Mall on the first day of the October 2025 government shutdown in Washington, D.C. Mike Gayzagian, local president of the TSA officers union ...