Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Massachusetts sends more money per capita to the federal government than any other state, a recent analysis found. Mass. is the leader of only 13 U.S. states that send more ...

Congressional Republicans may seek to drastically cut Medicaid by imposing per capita caps, which would place a hard cap on per-person federal Medicaid spending. At a time when people across ...

A per capita cap to federal financing of the Medicaid program would be a fundamental change to how the program is financed. It would put untenable fiscal pressures on state governments, leading to ...

The attention that DOGE and its work are receiving has prompted some state lawmakers to call for their own version of DOGE ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Virginia gets more money from the federal government than it sends in taxes — more than nearly every other state, a recent analysis found. Why it matters: The Trump ...

House Republicans introduced a proposal seeking to cut Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. Healthcare ...

As Elon Musk has led an effort to slash government spending, his own companies have, over the last few years, received ...

The Trump administration’s many attempts over the past couple of weeks to halt federal spending have met mostly with approval from Republicans on ...

As Congress explores ways to curb spending to offset extending expiring tax cuts, one proposal involves eliminating the 90% ...

With the federal government running a deficit of 5.9% ... Remove those two states from the calculations and per capita spending is slightly lower in blue states than in red ones.