"We don't talk about the risk of heat until it hits us," Shannon McCann, a special education teacher in Federal Way, WA, told The Seattle Times. "And it gets harder in a high-poverty community when people don't have a way to escape heat even after school."

The House targeted organizations it found to "undermine the unity of our country," proposing to reduce the Office for Civil Rights budget by 25%.

"I actually use my vacation time now," Superintendent Diane Kelly confides. "I make sure I'm present for the milestone events in the lives of my family and friends—things I used to miss for evening meetings in the district."

The lawsuit seeks to stop taxpayer funds from going to the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which was established despite a warning from Oklahoma's Republican attorney general that the school would violate both state law and the state constitution.