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Senate Republican leaders said they would travel to the White House this week to discuss legislation to end a protracted DHS shutdown without any Democratic input.

The number of days rainy day funds could cover state operations fell last year for the first time since the Great Recession.

The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is projecting a budget shortfall of $34.4 million, staff told an interim budget committee this week.

The Idaho Legislature’s budget committee rejected a pair of proposals Wednesday that would have restored a total of $285,000 in state funding for wildfire protection that the Idaho Legislature cut last month.

Benjamin Weiss WASHINGTON (CN) — The House on Tuesday gave its final approval to a package of spending bills to fully fund government programs for the rest of the 2026 fiscal year, ending a partial government shutdown that ran through the weekend. A...

The agreement buys Congress time to hammer out a plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security — Democrats have demanded reforms to the agency after federal agents killed U.S. citizens in Minnesota.

Idaho’s projected state budget deficit for the current fiscal year 2026 has increased to $58.3 million, according to the state’s latest revenue forecasts and budget documents released this week.

The latest budget documents released by the state show Idaho is projected to end the current fiscal year in June with an unconstitutional state budget deficit of $56.6 million.

Democratic leadership said they will only support a short-term stopgap if Republicans agree to extend health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

Calling it a good budget in lean times, the Missoula City Council on Monday unanimously adopted the municipal budget for the new fiscal year, holding to a 3.39% tax increase that largely covers cost-of-living increases.