The federal funding includes $864,000 for the city of Portland, plus another $28,500 for 2 local nonprofits that helped provide housing and other services.
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Senate passes Trump-backed budget deal, averting threat of financial crisis, shutdown, automatic spending cuts
Senate passes Trump-backed budget deal, averting threat of financial crisis, shutdown, automatic spending cuts
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Donald Trump revives his border wall fight with $8.6 billion budget request
Trump’s new budget calls for billions more for border wall, steep cuts in domestic programs but increases for military spending
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Lawmakers rush to resolve last-minute snags in spending bill as shutdown looms
Aides to President Trump indicated he is open to signing the legislation to keep the government open but wants to see the final package.
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Donald Trump says he’s unhappy with border deal but he could back it
President Donald Trump says ‘I can’t say I’m thrilled’ with a congressional compromise on border security designed to avert a second government shutdown
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Budget deal allows far less money than Trump wanted for wall
Tentative budget agreement to keep government operating gives Trump far less money than he sought for border wall
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Congressional lawmakers reach deal on border wall funding
Deal reached on border wall funding that would avert a second government shutdown this year.
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FAA staffing problems delays flights to Northeast airports
Federal officials temporarily restricted flights Friday into and out of New York’s LaGuardia Airport, another example of the toll the partial government shutdown – in its 35th day – is having on the nation’s airports. “We have experienced a slight increase in sick leave at two facilities,” a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said […]
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Susan Collins says she supports Trump’s plan for border wall funding to end shutdown
She also becomes the first Republican to say she will support a Democrat-sponsored bill to reopen the government if the president’s measure fails.
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Nancy Pelosi blocks Trump’s plans to deliver the State of the Union speech
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will not allow President Donald Trump to deliver the State of the Union in the House chamber next week, writing to him on Wednesday afternoon that he can give the annual speech at the Capitol once the government shutdown is over. Pelosi said when she extended Trump the […]