The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.
District 2, covering vast Eastern Oregon and represented by Oregon's only Republican, Rep. Cliff Bentz, has the second most, with 7,887. Districts 1, 3 and 5, containing much of the Portland metro area, have a total of 15,730 employees. Washington's third district, containing Vancouver, has 10,104 federal employees.
The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek says she will uphold state law prohibiting government officials and police from helping federal immigration officers.
Oregon’s congressional delegation as well as other lawmakers in the region, reacted to the Trump administration’s freeze on federal grants and loans Tuesday.A f
A directive to freeze federal aid was widely decried by Democrats, but there was little clarity on what it will actually do.
Here's a roundup of Oregon politicians who will be attending or missing President-elect Donald Trump's Inauguration Day ceremonies on Monday.
Studies slated to appear in the CDC's official journal have been swept up in an “immediate pause” on communications by federal health agencies ordered on President Donald Trump’s first full day in office.
Courtney's oratory skills were unequaled and his influence over state politics arguably unmatched. Perhaps most noteworthy in today’s era, he embodied a style of government he believed was the “Oregon Way” - the type of governing where you compromised and listened and remembered what it felt like to not be part of the political majority.
In the first national tragedy of his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump wasted no time Thursday baselessly blaming Democrats and diversity initiatives in the federal government for the midair collision that killed 67 people over the Potomac River.
President Donald Trump is questioning the actions of the army helicopter pilot and air traffic controller in Wednesday's deadly midair collision in Washington.