After months of delays, lawmakers recently approved a federal funding bill narrowly averting a government shutdown, but ...

The competing demands create a headache for House Speaker Mike Johnson to pass the budget reconciliation package without any Democratic support.

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez said Wednesday he wants to lower the state’s sales-tax rate, trimming revenue by almost $5 ...

When U.S. lawmakers passed a stopgap funding bill this month to keep the government running through September, more than $100 ...

Kentucky health advocates ask GOP lawmakers to reconsider changes to Medicaid in bill vetoed by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

Republicans in the Maine Legislature renewed calls for MaineCare reform and pledged to reject tax increases Tuesday as lawmakers began their next phase of budget work following partisan divide over a ...

Medicaid is the main government program covering health care insurance and long-term care to approximately 83 million people.

TALLAHASSEE — Sen. Randy Fine, the bellicose Republican from Melbourne Beach, is wrapping up his last days in the Legislature ...

If Republicans fail to get the votes on their own to lift the debt ceiling, with the deadline expected in August or September ...

I mean, unless you’re stealing from your campaign account to enrich yourself, you really shouldn’t have anything to worry ...

The U.S. government has until August or September to lift the country’s borrowing limit to avert a default on its $36 ...

Some conservative lawmakers are quietly urging the president to restore research funding as cuts threaten academic ...