Former House speaker Adrienne A. Jones has returned to the Maryland House Appropriations Committee, Chair Ben Barnes announced Thursday at the panel’s first meeting of the 2026 legislative session.

The one-year bill cuts public transit funding by 22%, Amtrak by 69% and Capital Investment Grants by 78% for fiscal year 2027 but puts “a historic amount of funding” into bridges.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday afternoon on the White House’s fiscal 2027 budget request ...

Political and legal sparring over $645 million in work project spending came to a close Friday night, as the Michigan House of Representatives reached a settlement with 31 state departments and ...

The House version of USDA’s budget would cut the department’s discretionary spending by $675 million, about 3% less than the current budget but still a much smaller cut than sought by the ...

WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee has released a spending blueprint that, if enacted, would drastically curtail funding for rail and transit operations. The proposed legislation, to be presented to ...

The House on Friday passed its first appropriations bill for fiscal 2027 with bipartisan support, marking an early step in the annual government funding process and sending the measure to the ...

Will this be the House of the setting sun for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality? The Trump Administration has been trying to eliminate AHRQ, the one federal agency responsible for ...

The bill would reduce funding for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

LANSING, Mich. — The method used by a Republican-controlled state house committee to cut more than $600 million from the approved budget has been called unconstitutional by the Michigan Attorney ...