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House Republicans are moving ahead with a plan to temporarily fund the government while beefing up border security – a proposal that is dead on arrival in the Senate and could even face difficulties in the House, raising the likelihood of a government shutdown.
It's not even clear that the funding plan could pass the House.
Anticipating higher costs for keeping the county’s parks and roads in good shape, along with hiring new employees, Seminole commissioners on Tuesday gave a preliminary OK to a record-high budget of more than $1 billion for the next fiscal year, while opting to keep the property tax rate at the same level since 2010. “I look at this budget and it was $1 billion, and I remember when it was ...
The politically divided Virginia General Assembly approved long-overdue budget legislation Wednesday, voting in an unusually fast-paced special session to both reduce taxes and boost spending on public education and mental health as part of the package. Lawmakers spent just a few hours in the Capitol considering the compromise plan before overwhelmingly adopting it and sending it to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Howell was among a small group of negotiators holding closed-door budget talks since the Legislature's regular session ended without agreement on adjustments to the two-year s...
Naperville plans to spend $155 million on infrastructure projects in 2024, a 10% increase over this year and a large enough jump to elicit pushback from at least one Naperville City Council member. The spending plan was presented at a council workshop meeting Tuesday, one of four that will be devoted to the tentative budget, which goes into effect Jan. 1. Many of the capital projects involve ...