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Former Social Security commissioner Martin O'Malley warned that payments to beneficiaries could be interrupted within 30 days as a result of changes recommended by the advisory Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began sending individuals monthly benefits more than eight decades ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in Washington today for a series of high-stakes meetings, including what ended up being a contentious Oval Office encounter with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Shortly before the meeting in the Oval, Zelensky met with a bipartisan congressional delegation that included Connecticut Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy.
In a video news conference following his conversation with Zelensky, Blumenthal called the meeting “immensely encouraging and heartening.” He emphasized the necessity of US support.
Rep. John Larson (D-CT01) says budget slashing by President Trump and his adviser Elon Musk isn’t about achieving efficiency, as they claim. He says it’s about paying for the extension of Trump’s multi-trillion dollar tax cuts for the wealthy.
Community health centers across Connecticut are experiencing disruptions in payment and communications as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders that froze federal funds, in addition to guidance from his administration, according a letter from the state's congressional delegation that was delivered to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday.
Connecticut Democratic U.S. Rep. John Larson was home in the state’s 1st Congressional District Thursday to talk with constituents about a “chaotic” week in Washington.
Before a crowd at the East Hartford Senior Center, Larson said the Trump White House’s order to freeze federal funding, since rescinded and blocked by courts, was “poorly executed.”
At the Urban League of Greater Hartford, serving the community is part of their mission. Fulfilling that obligation involves getting federal funds.
A push from the Trump administration to pause that funding is creating concern.
Connecticut is "going on the offensive" according to Attorney General William Tong, planning to sue the Trump Administration to stop a memorandum issued late Monday night that would halt federal funds to states.
After hours of chaos, confusion and outrage from officials in Connecticut and beyond, a federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on most types of federal grants and loans.
Connecticut officials are expressing concerns about what a federal funding freeze could mean for families across the state, saying they'll do what they can to provide support for residents in the coming days and months.
The White House planned to pause federal grants and loans starting Tuesday night, but a federal judge temporarily blocked it before it could take effect.