…to fight the opioid epidemic, and year-round Pell Grants were restored. Also no money for the wall. Note that Democrats fought (and won) for the people Trump falsely claimed he…

…impose if a spending bill increases the deficit. Not all programs are affected. Medicaid, Pell Grants, and Social Security benefits are exempt. Medicare, Head Start, housing assistance, public safety grants,…

…and food stamps to Pell Grants to loans and contracts with local companies. Thankfully, the Treasury Department also maintains a magnificent database at USASpending.gov that tracks all “federal awards,” as…

…Payment Reductions Another new lawsuit was filed today, this one challenging the Trump administration’s move to limit overhead that can be paid along with NIH research grants and that was…

…subject of this post is the number of filed cert. petitions the Court grants. And whose filed cert. petitions the Court grants. And the statistics reflected in the Court’s new…

…BYRNE Formula (law enforcement grants for local cops) $140 million BYRNE Competitive (law enforcement grants for local cops) $10 million State and Local Law Enforcement $50 million NASA $50 million…

…goal of $55 billion. But there’s something funny about that number, because it largely consists of loans, not grants. The Bush administration is fighting tooth and nail with the US…

“Restoring Medicaid,” What happens when states switch to Block Grants? I came across a NYT article citing Seema Verma’s approval of the Tennessee’s Block Grant recently. The Tennessee Block Grant…

…CEOs rather than strengthen our semiconductor industrial base. So far, nearly $30 billion in federal CHIPS grants have been awarded, with the grants going to 11 semiconductor producers. But the…

…for 401(k)s for amounts of up to $100,000 – $500 billion in government lending to companies – $349 billion in loans and grants to small businesses through the PPP –…