MADISON - Republican lawmakers who control the state Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers for the first time under the last seven years of divided government spent weeks hashing out agreements ...

Under the state constitution, the Florida Legislature has only one specific job:  Every year, it must write a balanced budget. It’s never easy, especially if lawmakers are sincerely trying to be ...

With the state strapped for cash, Democrats’ chief budget writer in the Washington Senate has told colleagues there’s no money available for new spending they might desire next year. Don’t even bother ...

Budget-writing season has been especially difficult this year in many Indiana cities, towns and counties as elected officials grapple with the effects of a new law that overhauled the tax systems that ...

A budget-writing panel in the House of Representatives passed a $24.8 billion NASA budget bill Tuesday, joining a similar subcommittee in the Senate in maintaining the space agency’s funding after the ...