Politics

The Ways and Means Committee is expected to release the full text, including revenue raisers, ahead of a Tuesday hearing.

"I'm worried about rates," muni market strategist Vikram Rai said during a webinar Thursday.

Public power energy providers are moving forward with using elective pay to boost investment in nuclear energy while electrifying small town and rural areas.

The state's legislative analyst's office expects revenues for the fiscal 2025-26 budget year to be $7.8 billion lower than estimated in January.

The municipal bond market may soon get its first glimpse of hotly anticipated tax legislation.

Muni advocates are watching the SALT cap negotiations closely, as the outcome may be influence if other revenue raisers, like axing the muni tax exemption, come into play.

"The threat of having both inflation and unemployment rising simultaneously continues to create a big headache for the Fed's interest policy," said Wells Fargo Investment Institute global fixed income strategist Luis Alvarado.

Speakers discussing how the U.S. will fare in the world post-Trump trade war and anti-immigration policies were largely optimistic.

The spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1 was balanced through an ongoing reorganization of city government, according to Mayor John Whitmire.

The U.S. Department of Transportation rolls out $3.2 billion via 329 infrastructure grants that will fund more than 3,200 projects that the agency contends were tangled up in red tape and DEI requirements.