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Companies that get federal grants or loans usually sign a legally binding agreement and depend on getting reimbursed. The new ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers the US central bank makes no decisions related to outgoing government payments, following a controversy over control of the Treasury Department’s ...

as part of a package that also suspended the debt limit so that the federal government could continue paying its bills. Democrats say an agreement is an agreement. “That is the path forward that ...

Sponsors of both bills claim government mandates are contributing ... "Many consumers in North Carolina are forced to pay for health insurance coverage they neither need, nor use, as a result ...

It’s a task that by all accounts is not going well. The current stopgap measure lasts through March 14. After that, without congressional action, there would be a partial government shutdown.

A bill in the Legislature would give the state ... News Fellow at the Yakima Herald-Republic whose beat focuses on government in Central Washington communities. Email qinghram@yakimaherald.com ...