UPDATE: Senate Reaches Deal to Lift Spending Caps, Fund Disaster Relief
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…
UPDATE: This Week in Washington: Tax Reform, Stopgap Funding Bill, Disaster Aid Package, and the Housing Trust Fund
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…
UPDATE: House Republicans Propose Legislation that Includes Historic Direct Reforms to Mortgage Interest Deduction
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…
UPDATE: Congress Unveils Short-Term Stopgap Spending Bill
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…
UPDATE: Government Shutdown Averted
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…
UPDATE: Low-Wage Workers Face Affordable Housing Challenges
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…
UPDATE: House Appropriations Committee Passes FY17 THUD Spending Bill
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;…
UPDATE: Senate Passes FY17 THUD Spending Bill Without Harmful Fair Housing Rider, While House THUD Bill Advances
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…