Hannah Grabenstein

1 week ago | pbs.org | Hannah Grabenstein

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion, or about two years of funding, from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which helps support PBS and NPR. “Taxpayer funding of NPR’s and PBS’s biased content is a waste,” the White House said in a statement Monday.

4 weeks ago | pbs.org | Hannah Grabenstein

As congressional Republicans seek about $4.5 trillion to extend expiring tax cuts, the federal government will need to find savings elsewhere. Experts say budget cuts could affect Medicaid coverage for as many as millions of Americans, at a time when the program may need more funding, not less. The proposed House bill requires the Committee on Energy and Commerce to find $880 billion in spending cuts, which means some aspects of Medicaid, which the committee oversees, may be on the chopping block.

1 month ago | pbs.org | Hannah Grabenstein

President Donald Trump shared off a list of his early accomplishments during his March 4 address to a joint session of Congress. Watch Trump’s remarks in the player above. Among them were his return-to-office mandate for federal workers, the withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council, changing the name Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” and his recent executive order mandating English as the country’s official language. “Our country will be woke no longer,” Trump said.

1 month ago | pbs.org | Hannah Grabenstein

President Donald Trump has made slashing the federal workforce one of his top priorities in his first months back in office. Reflecting plummeting public trust in government overall, Trump has blamed career federal employees for “destroying this country,” and cast them as “crooked,” “dishonest” and “unnecessary.”That’s an inaccurate representation of those workers, said Rob Shriver, former acting director of the Office of Personnel Management under President Joe Biden.

2 months ago | pbs.org | Hannah Grabenstein

Politics Feb 13, 2025 3:57 PM EST Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., told Linda McMahon on Thursday that her confirmation hearing felt “surreal,” given the fact that President Donald Trump intends to eliminate the Department of Education, which he has tapped McMahon to head. “It’s almost like we’re being subjected to a very elegant gas lighting here,” Hassan said. “Sen.