Senate Republicans aren’t planning to be a rubber stamp for President Trump’s sweeping operation to shrink the federal ...

Congress has surrendered its power to declare war and control federal spending to the executive branch, giving President ...

Democrats in the Washington State Senate have revealed a revenue proposal they say will bring in $17 billion over the next ...

Republicans want to pretend their tax cuts are free. A new report says otherwise. Republicans have a trifecta, which means ...

The vote in the State Senate turned into a fight between Republicans and Democrats over a lack of transparency when lawmakers ...

Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed into law an $11.3 billion budget that was passed by Democrats early Friday over the ...

A $10.8 billion spending plan Democrats hailed as a “budget of opportunity” and Republicans compared to a “bloated cow” passed the Senate largely along party lines Thursday. House Bill 2, which was ...

Maine's Democratic-controlled Legislature has pushed through a two-year, $11.3 billion budget on Thursday that plugs revenue ...

While Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King voted for the spending measure to avoid a shutdown, it eliminates millions of ...

These haven’t been the best of times for Chuck Schumer, the besieged leader of the Senate’s Democrats.

Iowa lawmakers ended another week without passing an education funding bill, leaving school districts uncertain about their ...

Groups that still want to be in the ever-tightening draft of the next state budget — and those hoping not to get booted out — ...