President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request — released today — proposes drastic cuts to housing benefits that help millions of low income seniors, people with disabilities…
Budget Deal
Senate leaders announced on Wednesday, February 7 that they reached a bipartisan agreement to lift the federal spending caps on defense and domestic priorities by a total of $300 billion…
Tax Reform Signed Into Law
This afternoon, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was approved by Republicans in Congress earlier this week. The tax bill fails to…
After some last-minute negotiations, House Republicans today released the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to make sweeping changes to the U.S. tax code. The plan takes a historic step in directly revising the…
Bill funds the federal government through the end of next April. Congress must pass it by the end of the week to avert a government shutdown.
Last night, the House of Representatives released the…
Congress passes stopgap measure to keep government open through December 9
With only two days to spare before the deadline, Congress avoided a government shutdown by passing a short-term continuing…
An analysis by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, titled Many Full-Time Workers Face Housing Affordability Problems, finds the median full-time wage in low paying occupations…
The House Committee on Appropriations approved its FY17 THUD spending bill by a voice vote today. As we reported last week, the bill would:
Increase funding for homeless assistance programs;…
Senate
After days of debate, the Senate passed yesterday a spending package that included the THUD appropriations bill by a vote of 89 to 9.
NLIHC supported passage of the bill since it includes no…
