Tag: budget cuts

Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?

Stripping the safety net: how GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's draconian proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare betray America's most vulnerable.

The Republican proposal would cut federal discretionary spending by nearly $5 trillion over the next decade.

As workloads and costs have grown — and budgets and staffing have shrunk — SSA’s service delivery has worsened.

The move is being called "despicable on every level."

There’s nothing wrong with increasing efficiency and eliminating waste at the U.N., but it’s crucial that we don’t curtail the U.N.’s ability to save the lives of men, women and children worldwide.

The Appalachian Regional Commission helps to create jobs and improve economic fortunes of “distressed counties” in West Virginia and Kentucky.

While national outrage is focused on Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, tiny agencies helping communities that teeter on the edge of poverty would also disappear.

Empty words when the budget cuts the White House is proposing will only make life more difficult for millions of Americans.

Scott Walker claims he wants to be America's next president. But with a track record of slashing funding for higher education, busting unions and going after welfare recipients, is this what America really needs?