ABCNEWS - Army cuts training as service is short billions of dollars
The Army is grappling with a sudden budget crunch and scrambling to slash training costs across broad swaths of the force, officials said.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - DHS agencies plead with Congress for funding security amid gridlock
DHS agencies are requesting a total of $63 billion in fiscal year 2027 appropriations from Congress – even as Congress continues to withhold DHS funding for the current fiscal year.
JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - Vought warns senators that DHS is 'disintegrating' because of funding lapse
Funding for the department lapsed in February after Senate Democrats refused to help pass an appropriations bill that would fund DHS for the remainder of the current fiscal year, which ends in September.
NPR (Fatma Tanis) - "Lives will be lost": How the U.K.'s aid cuts may affect parts of Africa
In March, the UK announced it would trim its global aid budget and set new priorities in 2027. This has some countries and organizations worried that on top of the US aid cuts, this could be unsurvivable.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Barrasso: Senate Dems have 'blood on their hands' for DHS shutdown
With no federal funding, DHS agencies – including TSA, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – have ceased nonessential operations and faced worker shortages, even as homeland security risks have heightened.
NYTIMES (Farnaz Fassihi) - U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Members’ Unpaid Dues
The world body warned it would run out of money by July and have to close its New York headquarters if countries, namely the United States, did not pay annual dues that amount to billions of dollars.