While the Town Council approved a 4.3% budget increase on property taxes, a new formula determining vehicle taxes could ...

Democratic leaders in the Maine Legislature signaled Friday that they plan to pass a new, two-year budget with or without ...

Republicans should focus tax cuts on middle-income and lower-income households that would provide greater support to the economy than tax cuts for the wealthy.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would back a Republican-led stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown, 24 hours after he said he wouldn't.

Alan K. Simpson, a former Senator from Wyoming and a Member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, died Friday at the age of 93.

Yesterday, the House passed legislation to fund the government through Sept. 30 and thereby avert a shutdown at the end of ...

The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (C.R.) on Tuesday to keep the government funded through September ...

The Orange County Elections Office has recouped more than 3.2 million taxpayer dollars as the new supervisor said she is still trying to overcome the overspending by her predecessor.

WASHINGTON — Two rallies are scheduled in D.C. Wednesday morning, one against cuts to the District’s budget and one against cuts to Medicaid and Medicare.

The House passed legislation Tuesday to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September. The ...