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Horizon cutting-room links: Wednesday, 9 April 2025

Horizon cutting-room links: Wednesday, 9 April 2025

The Horizon has covered the stalled DC budget fix, a new Virginia-class submarine, and HHS’s dismantling of its small business office, among other stories. Your Wednesday cutting-room links follow. “Supreme Court halts lower court order to rehire at six agencies,” Roll Call** “In an unsigned 7-2 order, the justices

House GOP stalls DC funding fix leaving city in budget limbo

House GOP stalls DC funding fix leaving city in budget limbo

Hopes that the House would vote this week on legislation to restore Washington, DC’s authority to spend its own locally raised tax dollars have been dashed, as Republican leaders confirmed the measure won’t come to the floor before the chamber’s two-week recess. Speaker Mike Johnson spoke Monday

Trump backs DC budget fix, signals support for House vote

Trump backs DC budget fix, signals support for House vote

President Donald Trump is throwing his weight behind efforts to restore the $1.1 billion cut to DC’s funding in the just-passed CR, as reported by Politico. House Republicans unexpectedly, and some say inadvertently, cut the capital city's spending authority of its own tax dollars in recent

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