Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Dec. 19 discusses his budget plan to invest $3 billion in highway preservation, bridge maintenance and ferry building in the next decade at a news conference at the ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing a $53.26 billion state budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 that increases spending for schools and the most vulnerable, but also exceeds projected revenues by ...

The Chicago City Council passed a 2026 city budget plan Saturday, but Mayor Brandon Johnson has the ability to veto it. The $16.6 billion budget, which does not include the mayor's controversial ...

Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago. He has previously written for WBBM Newsradio, WUIS-FM and the New City News Service. An alternative budget proposed by Mayor Brandon Johnson's opponents ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Gov. Dan McKee on Thursday asked lawmakers to slap a new 3% surtax on Rhode Island millionaires and scale back renewable energy mandates as part of an election-year budget ...

Pittsburgh’s controller and several City Council members on Wednesday skewered parts of Mayor Ed Gainey’s budget proposal for next year, with one councilman calling it “unprofessional” and “sloppy.” ...

The alternative budget proposal championed by a group of Chicago aldermen won a crucial first full City Council vote on Friday, even as Mayor Brandon Johnson made a last-ditch effort to reintroduce ...

WASTE OF THE COUNCIL’S TIME TO READ FEDERAL LEGISLATION. TO THE STATE CAPITOL NOW. IT’S ONE OF THE BIGGEST STORIES OF THE YEAR FOR THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT.