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The official 2025 General Schedule (GS) base pay table — the nationwide, non-locality annual rates by grade (GS‑1 to GS‑15) and step (1–10) — was published by the Office of Personnel Management and in...
Allegations that Barack Obama “committed war crimes” focus chiefly on his expansion of drone strikes, “double-tap” tactics, and U.S. support for partner operations (reports cite roughly 563 strikes wi...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking and subsequent proposal narrowed which degree programs it will treat as “professional,” identifying roughly a dozen primary areas (and some doctoral...
has several legal and fiscal tools to claw back or reprogram funds that flowed under the : affirmative rescission legislation, reprogramming and transfer restrictions in language, fresh or appropriati...
Estimates of how many drone strikes President Barack Obama “authorized” vary by dataset and by how one counts CIA, Pentagon and coalition strikes; contemporary reporting and research groups put total ...
The question requires two separate snapshots: how much funding was provided or requested for and for ) for FY2025 and for FY2026. Reporting shows divergent numbers depending on which paper or branch o...
The datasets show : one analysis puts the 2025 defense topline at $850 billion and , while multiple other briefings and reports put FY2025 between and . These divergent totals reflect differences betw...
The available documents show no single, definitive statement of an enacted, current federal appropriation level specifically earmarked for Meals on Wheels programs; instead, federal funding is portray...
Locality pay for 2026 would be applied as a percentage added to the GS base pay and varies by metropolitan-area locality, with higher-percentage adjustments for high-cost metros and lower ones (or the...
The impasse blocking full‑year appropriations is driven first by competing topline philosophies— generally trim spending toward while (and many Democrats) favor higher, bipartisan levels—and second by...
Congress does control federal spending through the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause and the budgetary framework it has built, but that control operates inside a complex system of statutes, preside...
The 2026 federal civilian pay picture was shaped by an Alternative Pay Plan announced August 28, 2025: most General Schedule (GS) civilian employees received a 1.0% across‑the‑board base pay increase ...
The documents provided show the CDC requested for FY2025, but none of the supplied texts definitively state a single, final ; instead they describe the request, Senate appropriations action that maint...
Undocumented immigrants are for federal TANF cash assistance in 2024; federal law and federal agency guidance treat undocumented people as “not qualified” for TANF, with limited statutory exceptions f...
Two authoritative figures circulate for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) fiscal year 2008 budget: one source reports about (presented in thousands as $5,581,217) while contemporaneous appro...
The Administration’s FY2024 budget request included a contingent, emergency-designated supplemental proposal of up to $4.7 billion explicitly to address operations on the Southwest border, but it did ...
Insurers’ filed rates and expert analyses show pre-subsidy premiums for ACA marketplace plans are set to rise sharply in 2026 — analyses report median proposed increases of about 18% and headline proj...
House Democratic leaders entered 2025 negotiations with several clear priorities but showed tactical flexibility as a shutdown loomed: , while senior appropriators sought guardrails to block unilatera...
The core legal authorities governing USDA emergency SNAP actions are the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 — including its contingency reserve and waiver provisions — and disaster statutes and regulation...
Federal courts have repeatedly intervened to stop executive actions that freeze or redirect appropriated funds, ordering agencies to resume disbursements in narrow cases; those interventions do not, i...