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State officials gave an update this week on expected impacts from Trump's omnibus bill and said New York will not pay for "sins" of GOP Congress.
Republicans have a paper-thin House majority — as demonstrated by the 218-214 final vote on Trump’s high priority bill — and Valadao, Kim and Calvert barely survived past challenges. Valadao first won a congressional seat in 2012, lost it in 2018 and regained it in 2020. He successfully fended off Democrat Rudy Salas in 2022 and 2024.
The office also estimated that the federal budget deficit for the first nine months of the 2025 fiscal year, which began in October, is $1.3 trillion. The number is $65 billion more than it was for the first nine months of the 2024 fiscal year.
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Muscatine attorney Taylor Wettach, a Democrat, is looking to oust Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.
Democrats say they're searching for ways to minimize the impact of historic cuts to Medicaid and food benefits under President Trump's budget plan, while preparing to campaign on historic safety net cuts unpopular with the public.
New York congressional delegation members warned Thursday the Trump administration’s hold on education funding includes more than $400 million in-state — disrupting school planning and threatening teacher training and English language instruction.
New York’s top leaders will need to make tough decisions in the coming months as they confront billions in lost federal funding for the state’s largest and oldest safety net programs. Last week, Congressional Republicans pulled an all nighter to narrowly pass the sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,