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Central Florida federal workers are in Washington this week encouraging their state representatives to support a compromise that would avoid another government shutdown.
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The federal food stamp program that provides a lifeline to needy people throughout the state will continue running through February.
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Heather Wilkie is director of the Zebra Coalition. She says the shutdown has affected grant money that funds in-house counselors and legal advocates specially trained to work with the LGBTQ population.
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Lawmakers in Washington are working to avoid a partial government shutdown.
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With temperatures in the 90s displaced Puerto Rican families and their advocates continued to protest in the makeshift tent city for a third day. They are calling for emergency funding as FEMA’s temporary shelter assistance ends tomorrow.
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President Trump has proposed a $7 billion cut to a program that provides health insurance to uninsured children. Florida is one of the states that could be most affected.
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The Federal Aviation Authority awarded more than $300 million in grant money for airports across the country and more than $2 million went to central Florida airports.
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The plan to send humans to Mars may have a lunar detour – that’s if a House appropriation committee bill makes it through Congress.
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University of Central Florida’s downtown campus is moving forward, despite a veto of state funding by Governor Rick Scott earlier this year.
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Federal funding for the second phase of SunRail will come through according to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, who traveled to Washington DC along with Florida lawmakers this week to talk to officials about the project.