The Trump administration’s pledge to end billions in federal insurance subsidies will worsen the federal deficit, and spike health insurance premiums, the Congressional Budget Office warned Tuesday.
Read moreThree years of declining revenues from coal mining in eastern Montana have left the state budget in tough shape, and budget officials said state agencies would have to find ways to trim some $93 million from their budgets.
Read moreChicago parents sued the Illinois Board of Education on Thursday over the ongoing school funding crisis, as state lawmakers face another showdown with Gov. Bruce Rauner.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – At its business meeting Friday, California’s Judicial Council approved a list of budget priorities for the
Read moreFour GOP senators declared Thursday evening that they will not vote for a slimmed-down partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act without an iron-clad guarantee that the House will negotiate a comprehensive replacement in conference.
Read moreA month after Kansas lawmakers rolled back Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax cuts to help fund public education, the Kansas Supreme Court met Tuesday morning to determine if it was enough to meet every student’s needs.
Read moreSanta Clara County’s Family Justice Center, a gleaming, eight-story building in downtown San Jose, is an impressive architectural specimen. It boasts a sunlit glass atrium, a bright and airy cafe, and high-definition displays outside each of its 20 courtrooms. It also came with the hefty price tag of $225 million and 26 years of debt for the court.
Read moreNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s trip to the beach during a state government shutdown has inspired new legislation.
Read moreGov. Paul LePage lashed out at the media for reporting he planned to leave the state during a budget impasse, and he suggested he sometimes concocts stories to mislead reporters.
Read moreSan Francisco Superior Court will close its clerk’s offices at civil, criminal and juvenile courts early on Fridays to close a nearly $5.3 million budget gap, and workers will take pay cuts.
Read moreRecent progress in forecasting the intensity of hurricanes — which has lagged behind storm track forecasting — could be undermined by proposed cuts in federal funding for tropical weather research, says the retiring chief of a team of U.S. hurricane specialists.
Read morePromising to increase California’s rainy-day fund along with major boosts to transportation infrastructure spending, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a $183-billion spending plan.
Read moreThe nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the Senate GOP’s Affordable Care Act replacement would lead to 22 million more uninsured in 2026.
Read moreCalifornia’s trial courts will see no new funding from the $125 billion budget the Legislature passed Thursday, but with an added $22 million for dependency counsel and the promise to backfill revenue losses from Governor Jerry Brown’s driver’s license initiative, the judiciary could have made out a lot worse.
Read moreSocial service organizations that haven’t been paid in over a year due to the Illinois budget crisis cannot sue Gov. Bruce Rauner for repeatedly vetoing budget legislation, a state appeals court ruled.
Read moreBoth houses of the California Legislature agreed Thursday to a $183 billion budget deal to fund the state through July 2018, the largest spending plan in state history.
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State lawmakers claim in court that core functions of the Minnesota Legislature will go unfulfilled because of Gov. Mark Dayton’s last-minute veto of operating budgets.
Read moreCalifornia Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown announced this morning that a budget deal has been reached, which legislators have until Thursday to approve.
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Dissecting a federal budget that has little hope of passing, members of Congress voiced hesitation Thursday about President Donald Trump’s call for cuts to three Justice Department grant programs.
Read moreCiting “great concern” about the North Korean missile threat, top brass from the Missile Defense Agency appealed to the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday to approve its $7.9-billion budget request.
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