The country's fiscal consolidation efforts are beginning to bear fruit, with measures to narrow the fiscal deficit and reduce ...

The legislative package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, has several provisions that will shrink the safety net, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ...

State Sen. Mike Halpin, D-Rock Island, supported a lot of aspects of this years state budget but shared he ultimately voted ...

Arkansas' general revenue surplus of $367.9 million in fiscal 2025 that ended Monday ranks as the seventh-largest in a fiscal ...

The wide-ranging megabill is the vehicle for much of Trump’s domestic policy agenda for his second term in the White House, ...

When President Trump floated his budget for NASA for 2026, it slashed the science budget by half, proposed the end of the Artemis program’s Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway ...

With the state facing a hazy fiscal future, Healey also asked lawmakers to give her the expanded power to cut across state ...

Three years after the launch of the three-digit 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, the service is seeing increases in call volume ...

There’s likely to be a second and third reconciliation bill that would not be as significant” as the megabill that passed ...

Legislators are offering Healey some bulwarks against federal or economic upheaval. Negotiators scaled back their original ...

The impact of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" in Mexico and Sinaloa Cartel leader Ovidio Guzmán were discussed at Sheinbaum's ...

New legislation could push federal debt into dangerous territory—without an emergency requiring it.