As the municipal bond community rallies around protecting the tax-exempt status of munis, alternative viewpoints emerge for why it should be eliminated.

The International Monetary Fund lowered its economic growth projections for 2025, citing policy uncertainty. It also urged central banks to stand ready to use macroprudential tools to facilitate lending in a potential recession.

Legislation signed into law will place $500 million of general obligation bonds and a constitutional amendment for economic development districts on the ballot.

Amtrak will take over from New York's MTA on the overhaul of the train station, said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

Fourteen percent of the state bills would create an electric vehicle fee, and Republicans in Congress have floated their own national EV fee to shore up the Highway Trust Fund.

Congress has hit the pause on Washington, D.C.'s budget process as a framework for transforming the RFK Stadium site into a viable $3.2 billion NFL venue emerges including the possibility of tapping $856 million in public funds.

Just as the economy could become topsy turvy, so could the municipal market.

The Ohio House's proposed cap on school districts' carryover balances at 30% of their annual operating costs has drawn praise and criticism.

Responses to an MSRB request for comment indicated broad support for an option designed to modernize delivery of municipal fund securities disclosure documents, but there was less unanimity regarding the need for a stand-alone time of trade disclosure rule.

The lawsuit argues the International Emergency Economic Powers Act that Trump invoked to impose tariffs does not grant the president the ability to unilaterally adopt tariffs on goods imported to the U.S.