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A compromise over the weekend resulted in a continuing resolution, keeping federal money flowing to states and localities.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's FY 2024 budget represents a 4.8% increase over the prior fiscal year.

The Amtrak-Texas Central proposal to build high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston would take land "from American citizens and put it under the control of a Japanese company," a pair of Texas Republican representatives told the FRA.

The draft amendments seek to retire 40 pieces of interpretive guidance related to interdealer confirmations.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board heads into its new fiscal year focused on market regulation, improving data for the muni market, and updating its EMMA technology platform.

"The major question is whether a shutdown is going to result in a ratings impact in the municipal market, and the answer here is no," said Jennifer Johnston, director of research for Franklin Templeton's fixed income-municipal bond team.

The House Financial Services Committee grilled SEC chief Gary Gensler Wednesday.

Republican-led states sued over the rule, arguing in part that it would injure states like Wyoming that depend on tax revenue from fossil fuel industries.

The firm, without admitting or denying the findings, agreed to pay a $60,000 civil penalty.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the $202 million grant signals the Biden administration's commitment to "clean, electrified high-speed rail into the heart of some of the largest and fastest growing cities in California."

The embattled Senator has an extensive understanding of public finance issues and has worked with muni groups on important legislation.

The bill is expected to pass this week in a move that would open the flood gates for banks and financial institutions to involve themselves legally in the banking of cannabis profits.

The MAMBA Act would modernize IRS rules affecting private activity bonds.

State and local governments showing strength in a time of financial uncertainty

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law gives the country "the best start we've ever had," in setting up a national bullet train network, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told a House panel Wednesday.

The website now shows Bloomberg's yield curve with hourly updates between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. The move changes EMMA's usual practice of displaying yield curve data from the day before.

As the Disaster Relief Fund runs dry, FEMA asks Congress for appropriation renewal.

The GOP stopgap funding measure may only kick the can down the road for a month, but how this bill passes will have implications for how Congress feels about additional spending measures.

The stalled appropriations battle is alarming counties and cities dependent of federal funding

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied Treasury's motion for en banc review following its January panel decision that rendered the American Rescue Plan Act's Offset Provision "unconstitutionally unascertainable."