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As a federal government shutdown looms, Washington state officials brace for impact

By Northwest News Network September 28, 2023

The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. (Courtesy: Creative Commons) Read By Jeanie Lindsay / Northwest News Network As federal lawmakers race against the clock to keep the government running, […]Read More

Federal Budget Deficit Expected To Hit Second Largest Since World War II

By NPR News February 11, 2021

Sheets of one-dollar bills run through the printing press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 2015 in Washington, D.C. Congressional forecasters projected the federal deficit this fiscal year will hit its highest since World War II. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Congressional forecasters are projecting a federal deficit of $2.3 trillion this fiscal year, even without the additional $1.9 trillion in spending that President Biden has proposed.Read More

How Tea Party Budget Battles Left The National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared

By NWPB News April 5, 2020

File photo. Don Wood, an official with the Strategic National Stockpile, awaits another truck load of medications in Salt Lake City, Utah during a swine flu outbreak from the H1N1 virus in 2009. The pandemic that year prompted the largest use to date of the stockpile, which was created in 1999. It has never confronted anything on the scale of the current COVID-19 pandemic. CREDIT: Francisco Kjolseth/AP

Dire shortages of vital medical equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile that are now hampering the coronavirus response trace back to the budget wars of the Obama years, when congressional Republicans elected on the Tea Party wave forced the White House to accept sweeping cuts to federal spending.Read More