Mandatory Program News Today

After months of delays, the House Budget Committee has released its fiscal year 2018 budget resolution. The plan makes progress in some areas, such as prioritizing national defense, reforming Medicare, implementing mandatory reforms through reconciliation, repealing Obamacare, and beginning to reform Veterans Affairs. However, the budget falls short in others.

The Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) appropriations bill should end wasteful programs and be free of accounting gimmicks.

Vermont Democrats will take another run at passing universal paid family leave in the coming legislative session, nearly three years after Gov. Phil Scott vetoed...