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A day after negotiators announced a resolution to their months-long impasse, both branches gave final approval to the nearly $3.8 billion bill

The House and Senate have struck an agreement on a combined economic development and supplemental budget bill that will include relief from high energy costs, money to boost housing production, “immediate assistance” for the MBTA and more, legislative leaders said Wednesday. Announcing that the $3.7 billion bill will be filed “imminently,” House Speaker Ronald Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka…

The Massachusetts House took a major step Thursday toward injecting billions of dollars into work on the state’s transportation and environmental infrastructure, sending to the Senate a rewritten borrowing bill that includes hundreds of millions of dollars to fix glaring safety issues at the MBTA and explore a rail expansion in western Massachusetts. The House voted 155-0 in favor...

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration is on track to reduce the national deficit by $1.5 trillion in 2022, allowing the feds to pay down the national debt for the first time in six years.

President Joe Biden on Monday announced details of his 2023 budget proposal, which includes an income tax hike for billionaires.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill providing Ukraine with $13.6 billion in additional military and humanitarian aid as part of a $1.5 trillion measure funding the U.S. government for the year

The $48.5 billion budget Gov. Charlie Baker is proposing for fiscal 2023 pairs a modest increase in state spending with a total of $693 million in tax cuts. Among other measures, Baker’s eighth and final annual budget proposal seeks to double the allowable maximum for the senior circuit breaker property tax credit and increase the cap on deductions for rent…

President Joe Biden has signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, authorizing $768.2 billion in military spending, including a 2.7% pay raise for service members, for 2022

House Democrats have added paid family and medical leave, immigration law changes and a state-and-local tax break to President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion social services and environmental bill

President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill is now half its original size and being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant lawmakers

President Joe Biden says he feels “very positive about reaching a deal on his big domestic policy bill.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill

President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress have edged close to a deal on their big package of social services and climate change strategies.

The Democrats’ social spending and climate change bill would put the United States back on a path to reducing its persistent pool of uninsured people

President Joe Biden appears unable to strike swift agreement with two wavering Democratic senators over his big $3.5 trillion government overhaul.

It’s a disorienting time in Washington as Democrats try to enact President Joe Biden’s agenda

Pressure is mounting on President Joe Biden to trim back his $3.5 trillion federal government overhaul to win over holdout fellow Democrats.

Republican senators have blocked a bill to keep the U.S. government funded and allow borrowing

Democrats are promising historic investments across all levels of education as they push ahead with President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan

Democrats have pushed a $3.5 trillion, 10-year bill strengthening social safety net and climate programs through the House Budget Committee