US Government

California healthcare providers are bracing for potential cuts from the federal government. House Republicans are looking to trim $800 billion from the agency that oversees Medicaid. Right now, Medicaid accounts for 20% of all healthcare spending in the U.S. NBC Bay Area’s Jessica Aguirre spoke with Maria Zamora, CEO of the Center for Elders’ Independence, and Michael Mancini, son of...

Dozens of websites and web pages have been taken down since President Trump took office, and groups of librarians across the U.S. are scrambling to save that data.

A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled. Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg detailed a discussion that happened over the Signal messaging app hours before the strikes. The National Security Council has since said the text...

The U.S. federal government employs roughly 2.4 million people, across over 400 agencies, not including postal workers and active-duty military.

Three European allies have been pressing the Trump administration to get back money they sent to the United States to help low-income countries.

Nonprofit aid groups providing free legal and social services to unaccompanied immigrant children being held in federal detention centers received notices Friday that most of their government contracts were being canceled. Jocelyn Moran reports. 

Nonprofit aid groups providing free legal and social services to unaccompanied immigrant children being held in federal detention centers received notices Friday that most of their government contracts were being canceled.

Elon Musk took center stage this week and reassured Tesla workers that the company’s stock would bounce back. The billionaire advised employees to hold on to their stock as he suspected a comeback. However, the company’s stock has already fallen 25%, and protests have taken place at showrooms around the country. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with Tech and...

Nonprofit aid groups providing free legal and social services to unaccompanied immigrant children being held in federal detention centers received notices Friday that most of their government contracts were being canceled.

Dozens of locals marched to a Tesla showroom in San Jose on Friday, protesting federal cuts proposed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. Scott Budman reports.

Thousands of federal workers have been abruptly fired and rehired, but some remain in the dark about what comes next.

Democratic U.S. Representative Mark DeSaulnier took center stage during a town hall meeting at Mt. Diablo High School in Concord on Thursday, where he laid out what he believed was the best way to keep the Trump Administration in check.

Democratic U.S. Representative Mark DeSaulnier took center stage during a town hall meeting at Mt. Diablo High School in Concord on Thursday, where he laid out what he believed was the best way to keep the Trump Administration in check. Pete Suratos reports. 

Experts and educators across the state and Bay Area fear that the potential closure of the Department of Education will impact some of the most vulnerable students.

Experts and educators across the state and Bay Area fear that the potential closure of the Department of Education will impact some of the most vulnerable students. Jocelyn Moran reports.

The National Archives and Records Administration posted more than 63,000 pages of files relating to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Tuesday night.

United Way Bay Area says $2.5 million in funds for Bay Area for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program have been ‘paused indefinitely.’

Several organizations that help provide shelter and food in the Bay Area are sounding the alarm after they say millions in federal funding have been paused. Alyssa Goard reports.

The Senate approved a six-month funding bill on Friday to prevent a government shutdown, just hours before the midnight deadline. This decision followed a dramatic 48-hour period in which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., diverged from most House and Senate Democrats by announcing his support for the bill, despite having declared the previous day that it lacked sufficient votes....

A federal judge in San Francisco ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers who were let go in mass firings across multiple agencies. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said that the terminations were directed by the Office of Personnel Management and its acting director, Charles Ezell, who lacked the authority to do so. NBC Bay Area’s...