Congress is supposed to control spending, but increasingly, the White House is dictating how America’s money is used.

For the fiscal year that ended on September 30, the federal government spent more than $7 trillion and ran a $1.8 trillion ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is on track to run a more than $200 million deficit just three months into the current fiscal year, ...

It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a ...

The U.S. government started fiscal 2021 with an October budget deficit of $284 billion, a record for the month, as coronavirus-related outlays spiked sharply from a year earlier and revenues declined, ...

The U.S. budget deficit hit a record $3.132 trillion during fiscal 2020, more than triple the 2019 shortfall due to massive coronavirus rescue spending, the U.S. Treasury said on Friday.

Lansing — Michigan's new budget will channel $203 million toward increasing the compensation of public school employees, a move supporters are hailing as a win for the state's teachers. The Republican ...

US federal workers have described their state of uncertainty, with many now on unpaid leave due to a government shutdown and one remarking that their salary was being "held hostage". Workers deemed to ...

When Michigan's top elected officials announced last week that they'd reached a deal to pass a new state budget by Oct. 1, averting a government shutdown ― without sharing many details of the deal, or ...

The Trump administration is escalating efforts to deploy federal law enforcement officers in several Democratic-led cities, as part of what it calls a crackdown to address crime and restore order.

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought told House Republicans in a Wednesday call that layoffs of federal workers will be coming in a day or two, according to sources on the ...

Members of Congress were unable to reach a funding agreement by midnight on Tuesday, leading the federal government to shut down on Wednesday. In Oregon and Southwest Washington, that means about a ...