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Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Hours before gifting the American public a shutdown for Christmas, Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the government until March 14. Gaylord News Photo / Kevin Eagleson

Congress avoids shutdown in down-to-wire votes

Kevin Eagleson December 21, 2024

WASHINGTON – Narrowly avoiding the September’s stopgap spending bill expiration, Congress passed a new spending bill to keep the government open until March 14, 2025. The legislation called a continuing...

On Tuesday evening, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) unveiled a stopgap spending bill to continue government funding until March 14. Hours later, billionaire and close adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk unleashed a flurry of tweets criticizing the bill. On Wednesday, Trump rejected the bill and called on Republicans to pass a clean spending bill that includes a debt ceiling increase. // Office of Speaker Mike Johnson

Spending bill dead following Trump, Elon Musk rejection

Kevin Eagleson December 18, 2024

WASHINGTON — Less than a day after Congressional leadership came to a bipartisan agreement on a new stopgap spending bill, or continuing resolution, that included farm aid and disaster relief, the agreement...

As the Dec. 20 expiration of the September stopgap funding package looms, Congressional leadership has been in tense negotiations over the inclusion of additional funding for disaster relief and economic assistance for farmers.

Stopgap funding package to include farm aid following pressure campaign

Kevin Eagleson December 18, 2024

WASHINGTON - As the stopgap funding bill’s Friday expiration date looms, Congressional leaders said they have reached a bipartisan deal to keep the government open amid pressure to provide economic assistance...

Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. takes a photo with President Joe Biden at the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit. During the summit, Biden announced a 10-year plan for Native American language revitalization.

‘They didn’t forget Indian Country’: Tribal leaders and scholars reflect on Biden administration

Kevin Eagleson December 17, 2024

WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland didn’t mince any words when she called Pres. Joe Biden the best president for Indian Country of her lifetime during this year’s final White House...

President-elect Donald Trump has renewed calls to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, a longtime goal of the Republican party. Experts believe abolishing the department won’t impact federal funding for public schools in Oklahoma. //Kevin Eagleson Gaylord News

House delegation supported goal for axing Education Department unlikely to cut funding

Kevin Eagleson December 13, 2024

WASHINGTON – As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the Oval Office, the Republican goal to abolish the Department of Education is back on the table with the support of Oklahoma’s U.S....

The House of Representatives passed the annual defense spending package known as the National Defense Authorization Act early Wednesday evening in a 281 to 140 vote.

House passes 2025 NDAA with focus on quality of life improvements

Kevin Eagleson December 11, 2024

WASHINGTON — The U.S.House passed on Wednesday a $895.2 billion National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 281-140. All five of Oklahoma’s representatives voted in favor of the spending package...

Before even taking office, President-elect Donald Trump has threatened some of the United States’ largest trading partners by floating the possibility of imposing tariffs ranging from 10% to 25%.  Provided

We’re very sensitive’: Experts, elected officials raise concerns over Trump’s proposed tariffs

Kevin Eagleson December 6, 2024

Economics experts and top members of Oklahoma’s Congressional delegation are expressing concern about President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. “I’m always...

Puerto Rico women have better access to maternity care than do Oklahoma women

Puerto Rico women have better access to maternity care than do Oklahoma women

Kayden Anderson December 3, 2024

Fifty-one percent of the state of Oklahoma is classified as a maternity care desert, or an area without a single birthing facility or obstetric clinician. This statistic makes Oklahoma’s rate of maternity...

The Drug Enforcement Administration held a procedural hearing to begin the formal rule-making procedure for the proposed reclassification of cannabis. According to the DEA’s Chief Administrative Judge, John J. Mulrooney, a trial will likely be held in mid-January.

DEA holds procedural hearing on cannabis reclassification

Kevin Eagleson December 2, 2024

Six months ago President Biden announced plans to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule III drug.  On Monday, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration kicked off the process with a procedural hearing as part...

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Moore) reaffirmed his commitment to solving the missing and murdered Indigenous persons crisis. Cole is Chickasaw and the first Indigenous American to chair the House Appropriations Committee.

Cole reaffirms commitment to solving missing and murdered Indigenous persons crisis

Kevin Eagleson November 26, 2024

There are 86 missing Indigenous persons in Oklahoma, according to data from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons Systems. At a Nov. 20 House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior,...

Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Cheyenne) talks with a fellow farmer on a farm in Oklahoma. Photo provided by Frank Lucas

Farm bill extension expected by Lucas

Kevin Eagleson November 20, 2024

WASHINGTON – Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Cheyenne) expects Congress to pass a farm bill extension by the end of the year. “The expressions I get from the faces of leadership, both my chairman and the elected...

Oklahoma Senators hesitant about recess appointments

Kevin Eagleson November 19, 2024

Oklahoma senators James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin are signaling their hesitancy of the use of recess appointments to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet. “I mean they’re constitutionally...

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