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Horizon Cutting-room Links: Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Horizon Cutting-room Links: Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Today is Wednesday, 5 March 2025. Federal agencies in the Washington, DC area are Open. Employees are expected to begin the workday on time. Normal operating procedures are in effect. Scattered rain showers. Cloudy, with a low around 52. South wind around 12 mph, with gusts as high as 20

Proposed Medicaid cuts could devastate DC hospitals and clinics

Proposed Medicaid cuts could devastate DC hospitals and clinics

Proposed Medicaid funding cuts could severely impact DC hospitals and community health clinics, threatening care for the city’s lowest-income residents, the Washington Business Journal reports. With President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans pursuing $2 trillion in federal budget reductions, the House has advanced a resolution that could slash Medicaid

Republicans face hard-liner revolt as government shutdown looms

Republicans face hard-liner revolt as government shutdown looms

With 10 days until a government shutdown, House Republicans leaders are scrambling to secure support for a stopgap funding measure amid opposition from fiscal hard-liners, reports Politico. The proposed bill, which would fund the government at current levels through September, faces resistance from conservatives who want deeper spending cuts and

DOD press release: DOGE finds $80 million in waste

DOD press release: DOGE finds $80 million in waste

DOD announced via press release that DOGE identified approximately $80 million in "wasteful spending" on programs deemed unrelated to its core mission. Highlighted expenditures include $1.9 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training, $6 million to the University of Montana for democracy initiatives, and $1.6

EHN introduces bill to block relocation of agency headquarters from DC

EHN introduces bill to block relocation of agency headquarters from DC

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has introduced the Protecting Federal Agencies and Employees from Political Interference Act, which would bar the relocation of federal agency headquarters outside the National Capital Region (NCR) without congressional approval. Norton’s bill comes in response to a directive from the Trump administration last week

Education Dept. prepares for executive order to dismantle agency

Education Dept. prepares for executive order to dismantle agency

The Education Department is preparing for an executive order from President Donald Trump that aims to dismantle the agency and redistribute its functions to other federal entities, according to a draft memo obtained by Federal News Network. The memo, titled "Eliminating the Department of Education," states that employees

DOGE revises billions in savings claims amid data flaws

DOGE revises billions in savings claims amid data flaws

DOGE has revised its public “wall of receipts” after multiple errors were exposed that had significantly inflated its claimed federal contract cancellation savings. According to the New York Times, the initiative deleted more than 1,000 contract entries—including several of its largest savings claims—erasing an additional $4 billion