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The bill to avert a government shutdown moves to the Senate and lawmakers are hoping to pass it before the government shuts down Friday at midnight.
November 15 -
The Biden administration announces new emphasis on transit-oriented development.
October 27 -
The GAO said that the $10.5 billion from the FEMA Public Assistance program might cover only about half of the $20.3 billion identified in Puerto Rico’s Grid Modernization Plan as necessary to repair the grid and make it more resilient.
November 30 -
The money is for post-Maria reconstruction costs.
February 25 -
Only $14.9 billion has been disbursed out of the $48.35 billion allocated by Congress since Hurricane Maria.
January 17 -
The $10.2 billion is designated for long-term mitigation work to prevent a future recurrence of the damage and to make electrical grid improvements that will withstand future storms.
December 5 -
The federal government has been operating on a stopgap budget since the Oct. 1 start of the fiscal year but President Trump has declined to give any assurance he will agree to another one past Nov. 21.
November 4 -
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said Thursday it is expanding the Rental Assistance Demonstration program to Section 202 PRAC units that house senior citizens.
September 6 -
CDBG mitigation is a new program to support communities for events that are likely to occur rather than recovery from events that have already occurred. Some disaster recovery funds have been used in the past for mitigation.
August 23 -
Moody’s Investor’s Service said the shutdown “has had minimal impact on municipal credits,’’ but warned that “economic disruption will grow as the shutdown lingers.”
January 10