Budget

Mail could be delayed a day or more under proposed changes suggested by the new postmaster general, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The 2020 U.S. Census is required for anyone living in the United States, but there are billions of reasons you’d want to take it: lawmakers use census data to divvy up money for important resources like hospitals, fire stations and roads. Lawmakers will rely on this year’s census data until 2030, so now’s your chance to make sure your household...

Washington, D.C., faces a budget shortfall of $722 million this year due to the economic impact of the coronavirus, according to the city’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Dewitt. A deficit of $774 million is expected for 2021. D.C.’s CFO, Jeff Dewitt, said the city could expect a “U-shaped recovery,” which is generally indicative of a recession. “We’re assuming this...

Gov. Ralph Northam plans to push back decisions on whether to give teachers and state workers raises, freeze in-state college tuition, and other new spending items in a proposed state budget in response to the coronavirus

Americans have been told to practice “social distancing” to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but that hasn’t prevented people across the country from lifting the spirits of those in need and saying thanks to those on the front lines of the crisis.

The Maryland General Assembly has given final approval to a far-reaching education measure

President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion election-year budget plan that recycles previously rejected cuts to domestic programs to promise a balanced budget in 15 years — all while boosting the military and leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits untouched.

If you think bringing a new human into the world is daunting, wait until you see what he or she will do to your budget. It will cost a middle-income married couple an average of $233,610 to raise a child from birth through age 17, according to 2015 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In fact, your child is costing...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is highlighting funds to fight crime, improve education and protect the environment in his budget plan.

President Donald Trump has signed off on nearly $1.4 trillion in spending that will keep the government funded through Sept. 30. The spending measures add roughly $400 billion to the deficit over the next decade. They include money for the president’s U.S.-Mexico border fence, pay raises for military and civilian federal workers, and funding for election security grants.

The federal deficit for the 2019 budget year surged to $984.4 billion, its highest point in seven years, and is widely expected to top the $1 trillion mark in coming years. The 26% surge from the 2018 deficit of $779 billion that the government reported Friday reflected such factors as revenue lost from the 2017 Trump tax cut and a...

A Trump administration official said Monday that federal income tax refunds would indeed go out despite a large part of the government being shut down. Russell T. Vought, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters about the development in a briefing. “Tax refunds will go out,” Vought said.

Taking aim at the sprawling federal bureaucracy, President Donald Trump’s administration released a detailed proposal Thursday to reorganize a number of federal agencies and merge the Education and Labor departments. The latest in a long string of attempts to rein in the government, the plan met with instant skepticism and faced long odds in Congress.

Proposed 2019 budget includes increases in military spending, but sharp cuts to social programs.

A possible government shutdown looms as time runs out for congressional approval of a $1 trillion-plus spending bill. A push to set aside money to pay for President Donald Trump’s proposed wall between the United States and Mexico is a sticking point.

President Donald Trump released his first budget proposal on Thursday. Here are some of the biggest budget cuts and increases that he’d wants made in the federal government.