Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. Before joining the business and finance vertical, she worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.

PBS informed 34 staffers Thursday they were being laid off as part of a broader downsizing effort that's resulted in 100 jobs being cut in recent months. The cuts were triggered in part by the Trump ...

House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said Tuesday that he’s pushing for a stopgap that punts this month’s threat of a government shutdown into November to buy time for funding talks ...

PBS notified 34 staffers of layoffs on Thursday, the latest fallout from a Donald Trump-led effort to cut federal funding to public media. The job cuts are among nearly 100 positions that have been ...

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is leading the administration’s fight against elite universities. She sat down with WSJ to discuss her thinking and if there is room for compromise. Photo: Greg ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is pushing for an “old-school conference” to approve up to three regular government funding bills, with the House’s top GOP appropriator signaling they are close to a deal ...

Editor’s Note: This roundup is meant to highlight some of the most notable funding rounds of the month and is not intended to be comprehensive. Health tech companies made several major funding ...

The funding and overall future of Head Start — which helps low-income families with child development and family support services — has been in the headlines for the better half of the year because of ...

A federal judge has struck the Trump administration’s $2.2 billion funding freeze of Harvard University, granting the elite institution a victory in its battle against the government. The university ...

Corrected: This article has been updated to reflect the correct allocation in the House bill for the Department of Education’s office of civil rights. U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers who ...

Many school districts’ biggest budget concerns this year have centered on the federal government: The Trump administration has moved aggressively—generally without warning or congressional approval—to ...

Thousands of construction workers and union members rallied in Lansing for a long-term road funding plan. Governor Gretchen Whitmer is calling for a new road funding plan to be part of the 2026 fiscal ...