Federal spending is in the spotlight this year like never before, as the Trump administration has bypassed Congress and held up billions of dollars lawmakers had already approved for education.

The Federal Reserve is an independent organization, meant to be insulated from politics, and the Supreme Court suggested last ...

This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at coloradosun.com. Colorado lawmakers are returning to the Capitol on Aug. 21 for a special session to address ...

Pennsylvania enters its fourth month of budget gridlock as the only state in the country without some kind of spending plan in place for the coming year. And now, the commonwealth faces the ...

Union leaders are warning that the simultaneous state and federal budget impasses have already started exacerbating one another, potentially leading to a much broader shutdown in public services than ...

President Donald Trump became the first president to invoke the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to take temporary control over law enforcement in Washington, D.C., citing high crime levels that ...