President Donald Trump’s first year of his second, nonconsecutive term brought all sorts of changes. His administration shuttered the United States Agency for International Development, had the ...

The Trump administration last May proposed to shrink federal K-12 investments by roughly $7 billion and eliminate or ...

I was struck, no, dumbfounded by this: Debt funded all federal government spending in 2025. The federal government plans to spend a total of $7 trillion in fiscal 2025 but only bring in $5.16 trillion ...

President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a promise to slash spending by trillions of dollars and balance the federal budget. But, as the first fiscal year of his second term came to a ...

Funds for yet another government program are on track for depletion and could put higher education further out of reach for millions of Americans, according to research from the nonprofit Committee ...

Ohio legislative leaders say they’ll be forced to change course on the route to regulate intoxicating hemp in the state, following a provision in the federal budget bill passed this week that places ...

While many areas of the country held elections Tuesday, Congress continued to shirk its main job: passing a budget for fiscal year 2026, which began on Oct. 1. Tuesday marked the 35th impasse day.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration on Thursday announced it has identified nearly $500 million it will keep in budget reserves ...

State Budget Director Jen Flood said the budget for 2027 will be challenging because Congress has shifted costs to the states ...

The federal budget gap narrowed more sharply than forecasters anticipated in November, offering a rare piece of good news in a fiscal landscape still dominated by red ink. The monthly shortfall came ...

Budget delays at the state and federal levels are resulting in funding uncertainties for local schools, officials said this week. Pitt County Schools Superintendent Steve Lassiter told the Board of ...