Lawmakers are navigating a familiar budget crisis, but a rarely used presidential tool is shifting the balance of power and raising stakes for both parties.

Roughly 66,000 federal employees in Pennsylvania are either furloughed or working without pay, union officials said at a press event Wednesday, while several counties have or are expected to furlough staff due to a lack of state funding.

The Senate's meeting on Oct. 14 will be another attempt to approve legislation to fund the government, following seven previous unsuccessful tries.

While both the Michigan House and the Michigan Senate have passed budgets for the upcoming fiscal year — which starts in less than one month — what they’ve approved may have little to do with what will be in the final budget. The Senate proposal was ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — U.S. lawmakers are running out of time to avoid a shutdown of the federal government. The government's current budget runs out on Sept. 30. If congress hasn't passed a funding bill by then, the federal government will shut down on ...

It is likely that by tomorrow, there will be no federal budget and no state budget. What does that mean for Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania is now three months behind schedule on its

Let’s put it this way — it’s a very complicated issue, multilayered if you will. The defense budget is always set in the draft state budget a little lower, and sometimes significantly lower, than what will actually be spent.

A new Florida law effective July 1, 2025, impacts condominium association budgets. If a proposed budget exceeds 115% of the prior year's, a substitute budget without discretionary items must also be presented. Q: My condominium association is beginning to ...