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Slowdown in consumer spending will create headwinds for the U.S. economy in 2024.

In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country recently. With the close of 2023 at hand, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, provided an update on the Committee's busy year. During 2023, 11 total Indian Affairs bills passed the U.S. Senate out of 21 that passed the Committee.

The U.S. economy has remained remarkably steady despite an unrelenting series of shocks over the last three years. America’s economic resilience was again on display throughout 2023, as the Federal Reserve continued the most aggressive...

House Speaker Johnson’s (R-La.) funding strategy is threatening to stretch the U.S military as it responds to heightened tensions with Iran and its proxies in the Middle East. Johnson’s proposal last month for a stopgap funding bill for the Defense Department, set to expire on Feb. 2, means Pentagon spending is frozen at the previous…

2023 did not see the creation of a new Farm Bill in Congress, and U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse says the effort was disappointing.