U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday he supports a federal funding package for coronavirus relief but opposes spending “a massive amount of money" to shore up state and local government...

WASHINGTON (AP) — US posts $284.1 billion budget deficit for October, a record for the month and double the red ink of a year ago.

The Vermont of Representatives is expected to continue debating the 2021 budget this week without knowing whether the federal government will help state and local governments make up budget losses...

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders clinch $2.1 trillion pandemic relief and budget deal after 4 days, 4 nights of infighting over money, power.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republicans moved forward Monday on a sweeping tax overhaul that could slash county government budgets, though it appears likely Democrats may derail the...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Moody's Investors Service said Friday that layoffs at Spirit AeroSystems are “credit negative” for the city of Wichita, Sedgwick County and local communities because the...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a rare protest against his own administration, Mexico’s environment secretary decried 50% budget cuts to his agency and issued a public appeal for more funds...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats subpoena Pentagon, White House budget office for documents on delay of military aid to Ukraine.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina government budget rules were broken when taxpayer funds paid for Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and two of his top lieutenants to stay in Raleigh-area...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Republican-controlled General Assembly gave final approval on Thursday to its North Carolina government budget agreement and sent it to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who is...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans rolled out on Tuesday details of a compromise state government budget that's been essentially hammered out by GOP legislators, without much...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans have rolled out a compromise state government budget that's been essentially hammered out only by them.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The two-year state government budget assembled by Republicans in the North Carolina House is now on its way to the Senate.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina House Republicans rolled out nearly all of their proposed state government budget for the next two years Tuesday, saying the proposal will build up veteran...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the North Carolina House unveiling its state government budget proposal (all times local):

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several North Carolina House Republicans who want to expand Medicaid renewed their pitch on Tuesday, now that the state legislature's changing political balance gives the...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It appears Republicans at the North Carolina legislature want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars less next year than Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper proposed in his state...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina budget adjustments got final General Assembly approval Friday, setting the stage for a repeat performance of last year's process, when Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the spending plan and Republican legislators overrode him.

The House approved alterations to the second year of the two-year, $23.9 billion state government budget by a nearly party-line vote of 66-44. The Senate finished its debate and votes on Thursday.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the North Carolina General Assembly debating and voting on state government budget adjustments for the coming year (all times local):

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North Carolina budget adjustments by the General Assembly are now just one vote away from Gov. Roy Cooper's desk now that the House has given initial approval to the plan negotiated by Republicans.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina budget alterations received initial approval Wednesday from the state Senate, their GOP authors emphasizing increased education spending and employee pay but Democrats blasting both plan content and the process.

A new report finds that legalizing and taxing marijuana boosts revenue for state and local governments, but not by much.

The credit rating agency Moody's Investor Service says in a study released Tuesday that legalizing recreational use of marijuana brings governments more money than it costs to regulate it.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Negotiators in the Mississippi House and Senate have agreed to most parts of a roughly $6 billion state government budget for the year that begins July 1, including increases for education, health programs and foster care.

Lawmakers filed final versions of most budget bills Saturday night but were still working on a few important ones. The K-12 education budget bill was delayed, although leaders had agreed to a $9 million increase for schools.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One of the top budget writers in the Mississippi Legislature has been taken from the state Capitol by ambulance, days before final budget talks.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thanks to a red-hot stock market, Oregon's public pension system investment portfolio generated a 15.3 percent return last year, more than double what was expected and sufficient to lop $3 billion or so off the system's $25 billion unfunded liability.

But it wasn't enough to head off another painful round of pension cost increases slated to hit government budgets in 2019.

DILI, East Timor (AP) — A political crisis is looming in East Timor after a coalition of opposition parties rejected the new government's policy program for a second time.

A two-day parliamentary debate over the government's amended budget, which was increased to $1.61 billion from the 2017 budget of $1.39 billion, ended with most members of the ruling coalition walking out late Tuesday.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A nonpartisan group that evaluates state government budget practices is giving mostly midlevel marks to Mississippi.

The Volcker Alliance was formed four years ago by Paul A. Volcker, a former board chairman of the Federal Reserve, with the goal of making government more efficient.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say next year's World Cup will cost $600 million more than previously planned.

There was no immediate explanation from organizers or the Russian government for the latest cost rise, published in a government decree Tuesday and signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Costs have risen by 34.5 billion rubles ($600 million) to 678 billion rubles ($11.8 billion), the decree states.

SAO PAULO (AP) — A prosecutor says government budget cuts could affect the Federal Police investigation into the country's biggest corruption scandal.

Carlos Fernando dos Santos Lima is involved in the probe into billions of dollars in inflated construction contracts and kickbacks to politicians that has landed dozens of the country's elite and politicians in jail.

The federal police have announced they will temporarily stop issuing passports because of a lack of sufficient funds.