The move by a Senate committee would pass a baseline budget and put off actions on some of Gov. Janet Mills' new spending proposals.

The state House Appropriations Committee dropped $3.86 billion from a supplemental spending bill, but its chair said the money is "still in play."

"If banks become even more reluctant to make new loans, the likelihood of a recession grows," says New York City Comptroller Brad Lander.

Wisconsin's Republican legislative majorities for a third consecutive biennium rejected Democrat Tony Evers' capital plan and will craft their own version.

President Joe Biden's fiscal 2024 budget zeros out spending for the popular RAISE grant program.

Volkswagen will benefit from the largest economic development deal in South Carolina history as it launches a new, all-electric brand of Scout SUVs and pickups.

Flint will receive state pension funding help but plans to press for more pension and local government revenue aid to preserve its struggling tax base as it recovers from the 2014 water contamination crisis.

Big national banks would be banned from state and local government contracts in Oklahoma if their policies "discriminate" against the firearm industry.

The state seeks "long-term stable funding" to advance the nation's largest infrastructure project, which remains in slow motion after almost 15 years.

The Kaiser Family Foundation's report drew the ire of the American Hospital Association, which said it excluded many community benefits from its analysis.