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Two million Pennsylvanians rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, many of them children and older adults.

The Trump administration is holding up nearly $7 billion in federal education funding that states were slated to get Tuesday, including more than $230 million to Pennsylvania.

Opponents to the Republican budget bill rallied outside U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson’s Bellefonte office Wednesday afternoon, waving signs and getting drivers to honk their horns in support of their message: That cuts to social programs in the Trump budget bill would be harmful.

House lawmakers in Washington D.C. are considering a spending bill that could cut around a trillion dollars from Medicaid spending over the next decade, leading to concern from nursing facilities in Pennsylvania that get much of their funding from the state and federal program.

The wellness check requirement, passed into state law last year, was inspired in part by the death of a 12-year-old Commonwealth Charter Academy student.

At least 50 people have died of an overdose associated with nitazenes. A lack of testing means the true number is likely higher.

Many key details, like the centers’ full impact on electricity supply and prices, and the amount of tax revenue the state will forfeit to Amazon, are still unknown.

Impasses don’t mean much unless they stretch for more than a few weeks. Then, they start having serious consequences for schools, libraries, and more.

Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania’s politically divided Legislature will miss Pennsylvania’s deadline to pass a budget for the new fiscal year, amid closed-door talks to try to produce a compromise.

At town halls across Pennsylvania, rank-and-file Democrats and allied progressive groups are inviting former Rep. Conor Lamb amid discontent with Sen. John Fetterman.