The federal government shut down on Wednesday after lawmakers failed to meet the deadline for a new spending deal, leaving federal agencies to begin winding down operations as Washington braces for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the second time in less than a year, the United States federal government could shut down. While the U.S. Senate did come to ...

Weaponizing fraud and using it as a pretext to take funds away from states will destabilize their programs and ultimately take health care from people who can least afford it.

Lawmakers reauthorized the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program as part of the deal to reopen the federal government, but funding remains an open question. The end of the longest federal ...

Warning signs are piling up that schools could experience more funding turbulence in the coming months, even though Congress recently approved a federal budget with no major education cuts. The Trump ...

The federal government is terminating a grant program that provides funds to school districts across the state for after-school programming, school-based counseling services, parent education and ...

A perfect storm has arrived on the ledgers of many state budgets, bearing down on the people who often need help the most. Federal and state policy decisions, the end of pandemic aid and long-term ...

The director of Minnesota’s Medicaid program said Wednesday that the withheld funding “does not reflect what we have done” to root out fraud.

Public health depends on long-term planning, and when that planning is interrupted, some programs never recover.

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who chairs the Senate Small Business Committee, is urging 24 federal agencies to halt funding for a Biden-expanded program for "socially and economically ...

For the second time in less than a year, the United States federal government could shut down. While the U.S. Senate did come to an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, ...