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.
Congress will have until early March to finish work it was supposed to complete last fall — and will avert a partial government shutdown…
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The gap in WIC funding for low-income families could mean states would have to turn to waiting lists for those who want to enroll, administration officials said.
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Congress is staring down a funding cliff in mid-January and a second one in early February, but neither of those deadlines have inspired House…