From a downtown amphitheater to addiction services, Michigan lawmakers last week approved spending $125.3 million across 135 ...

In the middle of May, a number of House Democratic staffers and lawmakers were irate. The House Appropriations Committee had begun rolling out its list of bills as part of the annual Fiscal Year 2024 ...

The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (C.R.) on Tuesday to keep the government funded through September ...

In 2023, Muskegon County voters chose not to support a $3.2 million bond proposal to repair a section of Blackmer Road ...

Legislators plan to return July 14, two weeks into the new financial year, to continue hashing out differences in the $15 ...

Despite these differences, both Democrats and Republicans invest billions in higher education and issue billions annually in federal earmarks. Federal earmarks are taxpayer-funded spending provisions ...

ANALYSIS — When it comes to congressional earmarks, the big dogs usually eat first. So it’s no surprise that House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., leads the pack on “community project ...

For the federal government, the 2024 fiscal year started in October of last year, but this funding — at least a portion of it — didn’t make it through Congress and to the President’s desk until last ...

6,628. That’s the number of earmarks bipartisan House and Senate lawmakers tucked into the $467 billion minibus spending bill which just passed last week. The funding plan covers six areas of federal ...

House Republicans have so thoroughly stacked the earmarking deck in their favor in appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year that the top Democratic recipient doesn’t even appear in the top 60 ...

U.S. politicians have perhaps never been more divided, including when it comes to their views on higher education. Republicans are pushing for more control over the day-to-day work at colleges and ...