Senior reporter, Washington bureau
Jennifer covers the nation’s capital as a senior reporter for States Newsroom. Her coverage areas include congressional policy, politics and legal challenges with a focus on health care, unemployment, housing and aid to families.Before joining States Newsroom, Jennifer covered Congress for CQ Roll Call for more than six years. As a budget and appropriations reporter, she tracked the annual federal funding process as well as disaster aid and COVID-19 spending. Jennifer is originally from northern Pennsylvania and holds degrees in journalism and political science from Penn State University. After graduating, she began her journalism career as a reporter for The Daily Times in Maryland where she covered local and state government. Jennifer then moved to Washington, D.C. to work as a web producer at Politico.
Budget proposal is more of a policy statement than a working fiscal document. Congress, which is still working on last year’s budget, gets to write the spending plan.
Maryland’s senators support the spending package, despite cuts to the FBI and EPA. Next federal funding deadline is two weeks away.
Maryland Democrats were enthusiastic about the president’s speech. U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he ‘came out swinging.’
Dig into the details of the partial federal budget deal, agency by agency.
Time is short and the House of Representatives does not return from recess until Wednesday night.
Those receiving loan forgiveness are enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education repayment plan, have been paying back their loans for at least 10 years and originally took out less than $12,000 in loans.
President Biden says former President Donald Trump ‘wants a political issue to run against me on.’
Gov. Wes Moore joins Democratic governors in arguing that mifepristone is ‘a critical component of the reproductive health care regime in states in which abortion is legal.’
Congress will have until early March to finish work it was supposed to complete last fall — and will avert a partial government shutdown…
The U.S. Senate took a broadly bipartisan vote Tuesday to advance a short-term spending bill, but both chambers of Congress must approve the legislation…