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The Pentagon is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for mental health and suicide prevention programs, among others.

Quality Journalism for Critical Times President Joe Biden’s budget request for fiscal 2025 would continue several administration goals to lower costs for most families while raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, spend on climate initiatives and provide aid to U.S. partners abroad. The $7.266 trillion budget request that calls for expanding the child tax credit, funding overseas partners and increasing taxes on the […] The post Five major takeaways from the Biden budget req...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden released his budget request for the upcoming fiscal year Monday, calling on Congress to stick to the spending agreement brokered last year and to revamp tax laws so that the “wealthy pay their fair share.” The $7.266 trillion budget request doesn’t actually spend any money since Congress controls the power […] The post Biden calls for expanded child tax credit, taxes on wealthy in $7.3 trillion budget plan appeared first on Ariz...

The Biden administration’s defense budget for fiscal 2025 is only a 1 percent increase from last year’s, a slowdown in spending that will prevent the Pentagon from quickly refilling weapons stocks gutted by the wars in Ukraine and Israel, according to documents released Monday. The $895.2 billion proposal, while the highest number ever for defense,…

Congress has pproved steady annual funding increases for VA opertions for more than 20 years.

In a letter dated Feb. 16 and released publicly Tuesday, the chairmen and ranking members of the full House Armed Services Committee and its military quality-of-life subpanel pressed Biden to "focus significantly more attention and resources" on service members' quality of life in its upcoming budget request.

City accepts $1.5 million in federal funding with extended timeline of construction.

FBI chief has revealed that Chinese hackers are targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, including its water treatment plants, electrical grid, and oil and natural gas pipelines.

The budget plan also calls for addressing the pressures some districts are facing due to the large number of international migrants arriving in Illinois.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/435128100 The Worth County Board of Supervisors will meet today beginning at 8:30am. The proposed agenda is as fo