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Grassroots Win: House Dems Secure ACA Funding Extension Senate Must Act to End the Trump Healthcare Crisis

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Senate Must Act to End the Trump Healthcare Crisis WASHINGTON – In response to Leader Jeffries and House Democrats leading the charge on passing the ACA discharge petition after months of grassroots pressure on healthcare, MoveOn Civic Action Executive Director Katie Bethell released the following statement:  “Thanks to millions of calls, texts, and emails from people nationwide, the House forced through a successful vote to expand ACA subsidies and stop our premiums from rising even higher. Americans struggling to afford health care and premium spikes have no patience for continued…

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Army to update its software directive, pursue new funding category for software

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The Army is updating its software directive and scrapping its existing policy on software funding that has routinely hindered software projects across the service.  Michael Obadal, the service’s undersecretary, said the new software directive will be released “in the coming weeks.” The service plans to revise the document annually to keep pace with the rapidly changing environment.  Meanwhile, canceling its existing policy governing how the service pays for software will allow the Army to “apply the appropriate type of money to the applicable use case.”  “For many years, as many…

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Lawmakers boost funding for NIST after proposed cuts

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Congressional appropriators are looking to maintain, and in some cases increase, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s work in areas like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum research. The appropriations agreement released by House and Senate negotiators this week would include $ 1.8 billion for NIST, instead of funding cuts for the agency proposed by the Trump administration. The “minibus” appropriations package rejected many of the administration’s proposed budget cuts and limited agency reorganizations. The agreement includes $ 1.25 billion for NIST’s research and services division, more than $ 542…

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Senate Democrats, holding out for health care, reject government funding bill for 10th time

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats rejected for the 10th time Thursday a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government, insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up health care benefits. The vote failed on a 51-45 tally, well short of the 60 needed to advance with the Senate’s filibuster rules. The repetition of votes on the funding bill has become a daily drumbeat in Congress, underscoring how intractable the situation has become. It has been at times the only item on the agenda for the Senate…

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Lawmakers press OPM on ‘critical’ staffing, funding issues in Postal insurance program

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Less than two months away from this fall’s Open Season, Democrats in Congress are raising concerns that the Office of Personnel Management may not be fully prepared to administer the major health insurance program for millions of Postal Service employees and annuitants. Top Democrats from several congressional committees sent a letter Friday to OPM Director Scott Kupor to push for answers about key issues recently identified in the new Postal Service Health Benefits program. The letter comes a few months after the agency’s inspector general office found “critical” staffing vacancies…

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White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters, officials said. The proposal, which was presented to the State Department last week and is still in a highly preliminary phase, is not expected to pass muster with either the department’s leadership or Congress, which will…

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