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Missoula County's preliminary budget for the new fiscal year looks to shore up rising medical costs and cover the state's rate of inflation through a county-wide tax increase of roughly 3.2%.

Missoula City Council member Bob Campbell writes, "Under this proposed budget, our structural deficit will continue to grow by over a million dollars, while simultaneously it asks taxpayers of the city of Missoula to fork over another 3.8% in their property taxes."

The administrative budget for Fiscal Year 2027 presented Wednesday by Missoula Mayor Andrea Davis seeks no new programs and only one new city employee, though it still results in a budget increase of roughly 3.8%.

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.