Appropriations
House GOP leaders are outlining an ambitious agenda for the coming year, with five key reconciliation priorities: extending expiring tax cuts, boosting domestic energy production, funding the border wall alongside increased immigration enforcement…
Trump-Vance Administration Nominees
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Republican Sean Duffy, a former Wisconsin representative in the House, to head the Transportation Department…
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician and TV personality known as Dr. Oz, to be administrator of CMS…
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap Brooke Rollins as his Agriculture secretary…
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Florida Rep. Dave Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
President-elect Donald Trump said Friday (11/22) he has chosen Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to serve as surgeon general in his new administration…
Linda McMahon, the co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team who spent much of her career as a pro-wrestling executive, is the incoming president’s choice to serve as secretary of education…
President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department…
President and Administration
On Tuesday (11/19), U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy released Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities, A Report of the Surgeon General…
The Senate unanimously passed a bill in the early hours of Thursday morning (11/21) that would mandate an October 1 launch of the federal student aid form…
California
California's once-record budget deficit has shrunk to $2 billion but there's "no capacity" for expanding programs and future shortfalls loom…
The defeat of an initiative to raise the minimum wage to $18 an hour makes California the first state to reject a statewide minimum-wage increase at the ballot in almost 30 years…
California Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry will introduce another proposal to guarantee paid pregnancy leave to school staff during the upcoming legislative session…
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a plan today to Trump-proof — and maybe even Tesla-proof — California’s nation-leading electric vehicle market…
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price conceded her recall in a news conference Monday (11/18)…
California is bracing for a prolonged war with the Trump administration come January…
Education
President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to dismantle the federal Department of Education — and the impact it would have on the nation’s special education teacher shortage…
Students who started school as English learners but later shed that designation by becoming proficient in the language are more likely than their classmates to graduate from high school…
Students with disabilities and their families could experience significant ripple effects from the incoming Trump administration’s pledges to dramatically scale back the federal government’s role in education policy…
The majority of states, 26, saw declines in high school graduation rates following the pandemic, new research shows…
In the article "So You Want To Make Education Great Again? 3 Executive Orders For Trump On Day 1," Jeanne Allen outlines three executive actions President-elect Donald Trump could implement to reform the U.S. education system…