Both the ongoing government shutdown and Trump’s grim 2026 budget with its painful cuts will hurt the economy.

At a press conference Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers joined with former federal employees to blast agencies’ RIF announcements ...

Gov. Ned Lamont and Democratic legislative leaders have nearly wrapped plans to use part of last fiscal year’s historic state ...

On top of maintaining the current federal hiring freeze, the White House is setting new expectations for the way agencies handle future recruitment efforts.

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is on track to run a more than $200 million deficit just three months into the current fiscal year, ...

The White House on Tuesday expressed its comfort with an ongoing shutdown that leads to more layoffs of federal employees, ...

For many people, the current federal government shutdown, resulting from a budget impasse between Republicans and Democrats ...

Trimming city spending faces at least as many logistical and political hurdles as any push to hike taxes, the Illinois ...

The Trump administration on Friday announced it had begun laying off more than 4,000 federal workers but will pay troops as ...

There doesn’t appear to be an end in sight for the government shutdown as it enters its sixteenth day on Thursday, Oct. 16.