It's Not Me, It's You: The Politics Of Sequestration
As the date of the sequestration nears, fingers continue to get pointed, but what if political infighting is really the fault of the constituents? Ross Reynolds talks with New York Times Washington...
View ArticlePostal Service Will Keep Saturday Mail Delivery After All
The U.S. Postal Service has backed off a plan to halt Saturday mail delivery, saying that Congress has forced it to continue the service despite massive cost overruns. In a statement released Wednesday...
View ArticleNational Train Day: An Update On Northwest Rail Lines
Tomorrow is Amtrak’s National Train Day, a holiday that was started back in 2008 to celebrate US passenger trains. Here in Seattle, the King Street station was recently renovated with the help of funds...
View ArticleSequestration: The First Cut Isn't The Deepest
Even though you might not have heard much about it these past few weeks, the sequester is still chopping away at federal funds. This week Washington state emergency unemployment benefits are being cut...
View ArticleMandatory Furloughs Tough On Employees At Madigan Army Medical Center
Correction 7/8/2013: A previous version of this story contained an error. Furloughs begin Monday, July 8, not Friday, July 12. Beginning Monday, more than 2,600 civilian employees at Madigan Army...
View ArticleLawmaker Requested Projects Get Funding In Washington's Construction Budget
In Washington, DC they’re called earmarks: the money members of Congress put in the budget for projects back home. In Washington state, there’s a more genteel term: member requests.
View ArticleHouse GOP Votes To Fund Government, Kill Obamacare
The Republican-controlled House has voted to keep the government funded but its "continuing resolution" comes with a poison pill to defund the Affordable Care Act that Democrats have vowed is dead on...
View ArticleHow The Government Prepares For A Shutdown
The fiscal year ends September 30 and without a budget agreement before that the government could face a shutdown. Weve heard the threat many times before and you may not be taking it seriously. But...
View ArticleSen. Patty Murray Explains The Budget Deal
Ross Reynolds talks with Sen. Patty Murray about the new bipartisan budget deal she constructed with Rep. Paul Ryan.
View ArticleSen. Patty Murray Warns Of Government Shutdown
Democratic Washington Senator Patty Murray visited a Planned Parenthood clinic in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on Friday. She said she’s worried that Republican attempts to de-fund the...
View ArticleObama Approves Law To Fund Government Through Mid-December
Updated 8:30 p.m. ET The bill to fund the government through Dec. 11 has been signed into law by President Obama. That beats the midnight deadline for keeping government agencies operating. Earlier in...
View ArticleWhite House, Congress Nearing 2-Year Budget Deal
The White House and congressional leaders are close to reaching a two-year budget deal that would set new, higher spending caps and increase the nation's borrowing authority. Congressional aides, who...
View ArticleWhite House And GOP Congressional Leaders Reach Budget Deal
Just days before the election of a new speaker of the House, lame-duck Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, made good on one last promise — that he'd try to "clear the barn" for his successor. In one fell...
View ArticleReality Check: Trump Proposal Doesn't Cover Major Military Expansion
President Trump's initial budget proposal isn't enough to expand the military in the way he proposed. Trump campaigned on the need to add tens of thousands more troops to the Army and Marine Corps,...
View ArticleTrump's EPA cuts will drain cleanup programs for Puget Sound
Puget Sound may have a murky future. The White House is proposing a 93 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency's budget for Puget Sound restoration. The proposal would cut the EPA’s overall...
View ArticleTrump's arts cuts will most hurt youth and rural programs in WA
Last fall the National Endowment for the Arts awarded almost a million dollars in grants to 34 arts groups across the state, large and small. That money funded everything from King County’s Creative...
View ArticleTrump budget would mean deep cuts for King County
President Donald Trump is proposing budget cuts that would deeply impact programs in King County. The proposal has a long way to go, and ultimately Congress has the final say. But leaders worry about...
View ArticleYou want technology? Then pay for scientific research
Let's talk for a minute about how invention works in our world. One way to divide the process of inventing is into 1) basic science research, and 2) technological application. The first helps us gain...
View ArticleWestern Wildfire Funding Attached To Hurricane Harvey Relief Bill
Emergency aid to help victims of Hurricane Harvey now also includes additional money to fight wildfires in Oregon and other western states. The U.S. Senate on Thursday added provisions replenishing the...
View ArticleCongress Passes Bill To Avert Government Shutdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX-uE7ldjQY Updated at 7:14 p.m. ET After a monumental legislative victory on taxes this week, Republicans in Congress have been scrambling to avoid a chaotic government...
View Article