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The House Appropriations Committee kicks things off with markups of three infrastructure-related funding bills this week, including transportation.

Some local governments have begun formal assessments about whether electric services to their communities should be municipalized or whether their existing franchise agreements can be updated in their favor.

"I've always really enjoyed what I do," said Henry, who began doing legal work involving municipal securities in 1981.

California local, state and federal officials blasted the Trump administration and congressional GOP for blocking supplemental recovery aid after the wildfires.

Markets are "tilting to a risk-off posture as participants brace for the chance of Trump tariff-sparked turbulence in the coming hours and days," said José Torres, senior economist at Interactive Brokers.

The policy shift may crowd out some projects, warned Baruch Feigenbaum, senior managing director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.

Market participants launched the largest lobbying effort in recent memory to protect municipal bonds and got what they wanted as the tax-exemption survived.

The megabill now heads to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson said a vote could come as soon as Wednesday.

Sanchez said the GFOA's debt committee in particular is a place where there could be discussion about what kind of controls are necessary to address the situation. 

The guidance comes as the tender market has grown from zero to $48 billion since 2019.

The proposal is an effort to placate Republicans worried about the reconciliation bill's deep cuts to Medicaid.

Some market participants said they were sad to see EMMA Labs go.

"The market itself should want to look at this because no one wants to give the perception of impropriety," said an investor of Stefanik's allegation that Harvard withheld material information regarding its ongoing conflict with the Trump administration.

The proposal would effectively cancel part of a rule change that had not yet become effective.

The Senate needs 51 votes to pass the bill, which has already sparked opposition from moderate and conservative Republicans.

Hospital spreads have widened as investors wait to see how the One Big Beautiful Bill will impact providers.

The mayor and city council chair of Washington D.C. are feuding in public over a deal to bring an NFL stadium to the city by leveraging over $1 billion in public financing.

The law has become no less controversial nearly three years after its passage.

The bill would exempt lead service line replacement projects from the IRS' private business use test.

The MSRB's decision to rescind the one-minute trade reporting deadline "comes after months of dialogue and engagement with market participants," MSRB President and CEO Mark Kim said.