President Donald Trump's flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes may be doing more to harm the U.S. economy than to fix it.| AP News
The dynamic of cutting government while also cutting out those who answer to voters has alarmed even some fiscal conservatives who have long pushed for Congress to reduce spending.| AP News
Winter wisdom from Amy Poehler, conquering the ice, and rethinking the brakes.| ambertamblyn.substack.com
The funding freeze sparked panic among thousands of scholars who are stranded outside their home countries and left without clarity on the future of their programs.| abc10.com
HHS is one of the government's costliest federal agencies, with an annual budget of about $1.7 trillion, mostly going to Medicare and Medicaid.| abc10.com