Indiana exports $13.9 billion in goods annually to Canada, with motor vehicle parts, automobiles and trucks each totaling more than $1 billion annually in exports.
That evaluation from Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray’s office comes as the White House has stepped up its pressure campaign on Indiana lawmakers.
Some Hoosier employers are freezing efforts to recruit H-1B workers because they don’t know if the federal government will apply the $100,000 fee to certain applicants.
Lawmakers face greater pressure to act as Americans who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act are seeing, or about to see, the consequences of enhanced subsidies expiring at the end of the year.
Employees at the Farm Service Agency help farmers apply for farm loans, crop insurance, disaster aid and other programs.
The suit is the latest example of workers scrambling to find recourse as federal agencies abandon their cases in response to Trump’s shake-up of the country’s civil rights enforcement infrastructure.
Moving the program would not necessarily impact distribution of funding to the states. The money for the current school year has already been sent to states.
Although Indiana leans Republican, caucus members argued that Hoosier Democrats should still be represented in Congress.
With both sides showing no signs of movement, it’s unclear how long the stalemate will last—even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers will miss another paycheck and states are sounding warnings that key federal programs will soon lapse completely.
If approved, the plan would change the ways the state and school districts can merge and disburse federal grant funding.
Earlier this month, Beijing announced that it will require foreign companies to get approval from the Chinese government to export magnets containing even trace amounts of rare-earth materials.
President Donald Trump on social media called China’s decision to not buy soybeans “an Economically Hostile Act” amid its trade war with the U.S.
The path to going public during the shutdown requires some creativity, as well as the willingness to venture into uncharted territory.
The shutdown began Oct. 1.
The call comes a week after Vice President JD Vance made his second trip to Indianapolis to discuss redistricting with Republicans in the House and Senate.
Housing assistance programs are feeling the impact from furloughed public employees, and essential food programs might soon be facing funding problems if the shutdown continues.
Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said talks over the price of weight-loss drugs are still ongoing.
Some 1,400 miles of transmission lines in Indiana and Michigan serving 600,000 customers will be replaced under the effort.
The repetition of votes on the funding bill has become a daily drumbeat in Congress, underscoring how intractable the situation has become.
The federal judge said the cuts appeared to be politically motivated and were being carried out without much thought.
