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A united Republican vote for the continuing resolution could indicate the GOP's ability to gather support for the more complex reconciliation bill.

Moody's Ratings has placed Washington D.C.'s credit rating on review for a possible downgrade for all debt classes due to the Trump administration's cuts to the federal workforce.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is signaling a change in infrastructure emphasis by pressing the District of Columbia to address safety issues on the city's streets while also pushing Amtrak and WMATA to boost security and curtail fare evasion.

The MSRB said its board at a previously scheduled meeting Thursday authorized the filing of further amendments to Rule G-14 .

A district judge in Rhode Island issued a second order telling the administration to halt its grant freeze, saying his first order is not being followed.

FINRA found that Tradeweb had violated an MSRB rule by failing to include the 'NTBC indicator' when reporting certain municipal securities transactions.

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is in the early stages of hammering out a surface transportation bill designed to prop up the Highway Trust Fund while House Ways and Means tinkers with a tax deal.

Disasters like wildfires, floods and hurricanes "are striking harder and more often."

Senate GOP leaders also aim to make the TCJA tax cuts permanent, which would raise the costs of tax reform unless a new scoring method is adopted.

The Bond Buyer's Caitlin Devitt and Kyle Glazier discuss the outlook for tax and infrastructure legislation.

Pamela Frederick and Adam Barsky will share their views on the importance of the tax-exemption, how it benefits state and local governments, taxpayers, and U.S. retail investors -- and keeps the country competitive on a global scale.

Glenn Lee is warning the city government of a $21.6 million drop in year-to -date collections and a grim financial forecast of years to come due to falling employment levels.

The Trump administration wants to shed federal office space, and bonds backed by those leases are feeling the heat.

Lobbying efforts to keep the muni tax exemption in place is boiling down to convincing select members of the House Ways and Means Committee about the value of munis in financing local infrastructure projects.

The American Securities Association in a brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said an SEC order should be set aside because the MSRB is unconstitutionally structured.

One California city has found that corralling a joint powers authority isn't easy.

The House moves the ball forward in the budget battle with an approved plan as public finance leaders lay out the strategy for saving the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds which provides a tempting target for lawmakers searching for ways to pay for promised tax cuts.

Seconds – even just one of them – count, FINRA's fining of MarketAxess shows

The Senate hearing comes as lawmakers start to shape the next surface transportation bill.

The House now needs to negotiate a final budget resolution with the Senate, whose leaders have said they want to make the TCJA permanent.