WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans successfully approved a procedure allowing the party to utilize an alternative budgeting standard that minimizes the financial impact President Donald Trump’s tax ...

The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee takes a break in proceedings to pass out printed materials for a meeting on Jan. 7, 2025, at the State Capitol Building in Boise. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho ...

SamTrans adopted a two-year budget, with better-than-anticipated projections for the next fiscal year, which begins next month. Agency staff previously estimated a slight deficit for fiscal year 2026 ...

The annual guessing game about how much revenue local school districts will receive from the state is causing havoc in creating budgets for the upcoming year. School districts have to provide final ...

Republicans are using Congress’s official budget scorer as a whipping boy, as they argue a major package of President Trump’s tax priorities is costless, despite multiple projections placing the ...

Idaho is currently projected to end the current fiscal year with a deficit of $56.6 million according to an October update of the General Fund Budget Monitor released by the Idaho Legislative Services ...

The Iowa Lottery is on track to finish the fiscal year at the end of this month ahead of projections. Lottery CEO Matt Strawn updated the Lottery Commission today. “Through May 2025, total lottery ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - After two months of higher-than-expected tax revenues, Nebraska’s monthly general fund receipts fell just before economic forecasters will update the state’s ...

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Now two months into the 2026 fiscal year, Idaho state revenues continue to lag behind state forecasts, but the state is no longer projecting to end the year with a budget deficit, according to a ...