WASHINGTON, United States — The US budget deficit expanded significantly in the first six months of the fiscal year, according to Treasury Department data released Thursday. This came despite ...

The Thursday morning vote on the Senate’s budget blueprint – a key initial step in the long budget process – will eventually allow Republicans to muscle the president’s first big ...

House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework on Thursday, a political turnaround after Speaker Mike Johnson worked into the night to satisfy GOP holdouts who had refused to advance ...

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- SEPTA unveiled a budget proposal on Thursday that it says would include a reduction to nearly half of its service, fare increases of more than 20% and cuts to the workforce ...

Labor was able to hand down two consecutive budget surpluses in its current term. But the most recent federal budget shows a return to deficit this financial year. After the deficit peaks – at 1 ...

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The House voted 216 to 214 to approve the Senate’s budget blueprint, a first step towards passing President Trump’s plans for spending and tax cuts. The budget had faced opposition from some ...

The proposal includes deep cuts to services across the board, including shutting down all rail services by 9 p.m. and fare increases that would jump from $2.50 to $2.90 per ride. As reported by ...

The smokey backroom where the three state leaders hash out the budget must be getting crowded, as Gov. Kathy Hochul has apparently invited the state’s 62 district attorneys to the negotiating table.

to debate the Republicans’ budget blueprint on the floor of the lower chamber. In a letter sent to the Speaker on Tuesday, Jeffries requested a “one-on-one debate” on Wednesday over the ...

The Economic Freedom Fighters have also filed papers in court to challenge the legality of the budget Parliament voted for the budget and it was passed on 2 April 2025, despite a majority of the ...