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House Appropriations Committee Advances FY27 Labor-HHS-Education Bill

The full House Appropriations Committee marked up its FY27 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill throughout the day yesterday—legislation which provides funding for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) along with other critical workforce development programs. Late last night, the full committee advanced this proposal along party lines (34-28), without making substantive changes to the proposed funding […]

FY27 House Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee Proposes Steep Workforce Cuts

Last Week, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies released its FY27 funding bill, which proposes to cut the U.S. Department of Labor’s budget to $9.8 billion–a reduction of $3.7 billion or 27 percent below the currently enacted level. The deepest proposed cuts would impact the public workforce […]

Medicaid Work Requirement Rule Released

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an Interim Final Rule regarding new requirements that certain adult Medicaid applicants and prospective enrollees meet an 80-hour per month work requirement as a condition for eligibility. The rule implements this new requirement created by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OB3). Under the […]