California, Gavin Newsom and budget deficit
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The Pentagon’s annual topline budget weighs in at more than 300 pages. But that’s just the start. There are thousands of documents, attachments, and PowerPoints, covering everything from the billions that the DOD asks for to order more F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets to the six figures the Army budgets for apprehending military deserters.
The U.S. government posted a $258 billion budget surplus for April, up 23%, or about $49 billion, from a year earlier, reflecting strong tax receipts in the final month of the tax season and record collections of import duties,
Under Gov. Gavin Newsom's revised state budget, the proposed funding cuts for UC and CSU are not as bad as the cuts proposed in January.
Massachusetts school districts working to open up new buildings are paying the price for increased tariffs. Costs for materials like steel and solar panels are now adding millions of dollars to their costs and blowing up budgets.
Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman have been highlighting the potential consequences of GOP spending cuts, and tax breaks they say are set to disproportionately favor the wealthy.
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A Portland City Council meeting turned tempestuous Wednesday after a council member relentlessly hammered a top bureaucrat over portions of Mayor Keith Wilson’s proposed budget and tangled with a pair of her colleagues who later criticized her conduct.
A $5 billion a year school voucher program has been incorporated into the Republican budget reconciliation bill.
Lawmakers have yet to get a deal on $756 million supplemental budget that includes $189 million to help families pay for child care
It's not unusual for the Legislature to make big changes in what the governor proposes, and further changes to the 2026 budget are almost guaranteed.
Lawmakers seek answers to questions about sweeping cuts to federal public health infrastructure but Kennedy stays mum.