Cuts or caps to federal Medicaid funding would force Illinois taxpayers to fill the gap or result in service cuts for ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the richer Americans were, the more they would benefit from the ...

The state’s financial turmoil hasn’t subsided. It may get worse when a new revenue forecast comes out this month.

This budget, passed by the majority party, is the biggest in our state's history and relies on the largest tax increases ...

The board rehired tenured employees while reducing teaching assistant positions to part-time amid a budget shortfall.

Congress is “doing things that no one has asked for,” one advocate says, as lawmakers tee up three bills that would overturn ...

President Trump will host lawmakers Thursday from both parties for the annual congressional picnic on the South Lawn.

President Donald Trump is looking to cancel $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress. That’s just a sliver of ...

Just weeks after signing a budget that relied on spending cuts and new taxes to balance, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson is telling state agencies to tighten their fiscal belts even more.

Shapiro, a Democrat entering his third budget negotiation, speaks of the process in positive yet pragmatic terms. He ...

The House passed bills imposing voting and policing policies on the District of Columbia, but the G.O.P. has refused to ...

Democratic senators joined hundreds of faith leaders on the Capitol steps Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to denounce SNAP and ...