Program and tax changes in the massive budget reconciliation bill are reshaping states’ short- and long-term fiscal pictures.

US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks during a town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin earlier this year. Johnson has introduced legislation that would prevent government shutdowns through an automatic ...

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order that introduces a new framework for how federal grants are reviewed, awarded and rescinded. Titled “Improving Oversight of Federal ...

Tom Williams / Contributor / CQ-Roll Call, Inc. Researchers and the academic community may have reason to be hopeful about the future of federal funding. Early indications from the appropriations ...

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.

If many of us operated our household budgets like the federal government, we would be considered reckless and irresponsible. And yet, here we are again, facing another showdown over a shutdown. The ...

Mr. Kahn is the acting director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. He worked for two decades as the staff director of the House Budget Committee. For the ...

Sometimes it can seem that AI is all that anyone wants to talk about when it comes to government technology. But that's not the only big trend of the moment. Federal funding stands as another hot — ...

Washington County has approved its 2026 budget without a tax increase, marking the 16th consecutive year of maintaining the ...