A prolonged U.S. federal government shutdown could delay military assistance to Israel and other American allies, the State Department said on Wednesday. “The State Department’s ability to provide military assistance to Israel and other allies in the time frame that is expected and customary could be hindered, depending on the length of the shutdown,” State…
Like many other Americans, Jewish communal leaders in Washington spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how to work around the government shutdown — and how it may affect them and their work. For the Jewish federation of Detroit, news from D.C. about the shutdown led to a decision to cancel the…
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs is circulating a letter on Capitol Hill urging lawmakers to support a federal budget agreement and avoid a government shutdown. The two-page letter being circulated this week asks Congress to quickly approve a budget that would remove sequester cuts and restore funds to such safety net programs as Supplemental…
If the government shuts down today, we’ll have come to a new zenith of institutionalized misogyny in American government — a level of disregard for women that is so powerful it might bring that government to a halt. Even if it doesn’t and a deal is reached, the fact that women’s health was the last…
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