Politics
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How one small Pa. business is navigating Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs on Canadian goods
The Trump’s administration’s on-again, off-again 25% tariffs on imports from Canada — which went into effect last Tuesday only to be suspended on some items for a month two days later — are giving Bryan Szeliga, owner of Philadelphia’s Fishtown Seafood, whiplash.
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Lawmaker proposes a moratorium on new cyber charter schools
State Senator Lindsey Williams is calling on the legislature to place a moratorium on cyber charter schools until 2038. There are 14 cyber charter schools operating in the commonwealth that cost taxpayers and school districts over $1 billion annually.
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Lawsuit aims to strike down LGBTQ antidiscrimination protections in Pennsylvania
Two public school districts and several parents have sued the state in a bid to undo antidiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in Pennsylvania, saying that the two-year-old regulation is illegal because it goes beyond what lawmakers intended or allowed.
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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
“What’s going to happen is VA’s not going to perform as well for veterans, and veterans are going to get harmed,” said Michael Missal, who was the VA’s inspector general for nine years until he was fired last month by Donald Trump.
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Josh Shapiro hits Trump’s tariffs for “jacking up the price of goods and services”
Gov. Josh Shapiro took aim at President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which will cost Pennsylvania businesses up to $5.3 billion. Shapiro warns that dairy farmers and other industries could be affected.
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Pa. schools could lose special education, Pell grant funding if Donald Trump guts the Department of Education, teachers warn
Members from the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and state and local officials warned residents that Pennsylvania could lose $1.45 billion in public education funding if President Donald Trump dismantles the US Department of Education.
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From psychosis to sleep to drug resistance, these Pittsburgh research efforts are threatened by Trump spending cuts, orders
A Trump administration decision to slash indirect cost funding in science and health grants, plus federal staff cuts, have Pitt researchers wondering how, and whether, they can continue.
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Pennsylvania Republicans who narrowly won their House seats feel the heat of early votes back home
Bresnahan and two other Pennsylvania Republicans won in November by some of the smallest margins in all of Congress, prevailing in a critical battleground state that not only helped decide the presidency but also aided the GOP in taking control of the U.S. House.
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Republican Medicaid cuts would hurt 800,000 Pennsylvanians
US House Republicans voted this week to cut Medicaid by $880 billion to pay for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. These cuts would affect 800,000 Pennsylvanians.
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Gov. Shapiro says the Trump administration has unfrozen billions in grants and loans
More than $2 billion in federal funding that the Shapiro administration had identified as either frozen or held up by an unspecified review was now accessible to state agencies.
