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The Jackson government subsequently named Senators to the Confederate Congress. It was driven into exile from Missouri after Confederates lost control of the state and Jackson died a short while later in Arkansas. The secessionist government continued in exile, eventually setting up a legislature in Marshall, Texas, until the end of the war.
Due to its internecine nature, the Civil War in Missouri would be longer and more brutal than anywhere else in the U.S. However, the Provisional Government managed to keep the majority of Missourians from embracing secessionism, and played a vital role in holding the state for the Union.
The Act effectively removed the impoundment power of the president and required him to obtain Congressional approval if he wants to rescind specific government spending. President Nixon signed the Act with little protest because the administration was then embroiled in the Watergate scandal and unwilling to provoke Congress.
Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed into law the state’s roughly $48 billion budget for the upcoming year but vetoed more than $640 million in spending requested by the ...
Missouri and Kansas State, former Big 12 foes, face off on Saturday in a now-rare rivalry. So why did Missouri leave for the SEC in the first place?
The debt ceiling deal passed in June capped base discretionary spending for fiscal 2024 at $1.59 trillion, but also included some “agreed-upon appropriations adjustments,” as the White House ...
During the American Civil War, Missouri was a hotly contested border state populated by both Union and Confederate sympathizers. It sent armies, generals, and supplies to both sides, maintained dual governments, and endured a bloody neighbor-against-neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war.
Foreign aid is an unpopular category of government spending—even though many Americans mistakenly believe that it constitutes a large proportion of overall spending—and it makes sense to ...