ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul signed off on a record-smashing $254 billion state budget deal Friday — though a lack of transparency in the budget process and an uncertain economic picture could ...

Gov. Brian Kemp signs Georgia’s $37.7 billion FY2026 budget, which includes major investments in prisons, education, and health care. The budget allocates $250 million to hire more prison guards ...

The North Carolina state budget is getting closer to becoming law. The Senate passed its budget bill, and now the House is days away from revealing its version of the budget, which will help ...

Coming up with a final federal budget always involves arm twisting and other negotiating tactics as everyone lobbies for their priorities, so the initial budget proposal released by the White ...

Yet the Government Accountability Office estimates that the government loses roughly $50 billion to $100 billion a year to misappropriation, not nearly enough to cover the budget gap. Republicans ...

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House, then the Senate in quick succession, sent a $53 billion fiscal year 2026 state budget to Gov. Mike Kehoe's desk Friday afternoon, hours before the 6 p.m ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he is aiming to pass the budget by Memorial Day. Congress is forging ahead with its budget for next year, but the most controversial program on the chopping ...

The budget hole is too big for that not to be the case.” In 2008 staff were laid off, some programs were eliminated, others became self-supporting, and advisors took on bigger work loads.

OAKLAND — Faced with a crushing financial deficit totaling $265 million over the next two years, Oakland’s interim mayor has proposed a budget that includes dozens of layoffs and the freezing ...

Lancaster County Congressman Lloyd Smucker led 31 other House Republicans on Wednesday to reiterate their demand that this year’s budget slash federal spending by at least $2 trillion over the ...

The county estimates roughly $3.6 billion, or nearly 30%, of its current budget is made up of federal funds, with 80% of that dedicated to health care. “We don’t want the federal government to ...

HOUSTON — Houston Mayor John Whitmire put forward a budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that would avoid a significant budget deficit and aims to consolidate city operations to cut ...