Following Trump’s firing of Democratic commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission and the director of the National Security Agency, The Dispatch asked Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill whether ...

School districts must approve their 2025-26 budget proposals by April 25 but with a state budget not yet finalized, officials ...

After the Texas House approved more money for schools in a bipartisan vote, it began debate on school vouchers.

House Speaker Daniel Perez accused Gov. Ron DeSantis of lying about the House’s budget, saying he was “emotional” and ...

Indiana lawmakers will have to find $2 billion to cut from the two-year state budget before the legislative session ends next ...

The Senate Taxation Committee cleared two bills, one of them Gov. Greg Gianforte’s second home tax proposal, for debate on ...

Public university officials are asking for more money from Illinois taxpayers as lawmakers raise questions about school ...

Debate is continuing this week on proposed changes to the draft of the state operating budget authored by the House of ...

The Trump administration is weighing a proposal to slash the State Department’s budget by $27 billion – nearly half – and ...

America’s two biggest public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, are facing an up-or-down vote over their federal funding for the first time in decades.

Team Trump prefers executive-branch power grabs to legislation, and soon rescissions will present another test of ...