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Trump criticized Harvard's teachings, calling them 'hate and stupidity', leading to funding cuts and legal conflicts over free speech.
Reps. Laura Gillen and Andrew Garbarino demand increased federal funding for localities to compensate for costs of incarcerating illegal immigrants convicted of crimes.
"We are running out of money quickly," Rancho Palos Verdes Mayor Dave Bradley said at a recent City Council meeting. "We are dramatically coming to the end of our rope."
San Jose is experiencing federal funding cuts that jeopardize crucial community projects. Existing requests for $5.5 million were omitted from the government's recent spending resolution.
Republicans would be making a terrible blunder to let Democrats' fear-mongering about Medicaid reform intimidate them from fixing the program, warns The Wall Street Journal's editorial board.
"I'm very nervous about receiving the federal funding," Ghielmetti said. "I want to make sure my fellow board members are aware that if the federal money does not come through, somebody's got to backstop these contracts."