Komeito, Japan's junior ruling coalition partner, plans to propose a reduction in the consumption tax on food from 8% to 5%. The move, aimed at easing household burdens due to rising living costs, is ...

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is defending her startling response to constituents concerned about Medicaid. One expert's analysis ...

Hidden Harvest is a nonprofit organization in Saginaw that rescues surplus food and redistributes it across agencies and ...

Property Appraiser Matt Caldwell says Lee County property values drop. Taxable values inch up, squeezing local budgets.

President Donald Trump wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be singed into law by the Fourth of July, and he’s pushing the ...

Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota will lead the effort as President Trump urges the Senate to slash taxes even more than the House-passed bill.

Feeding South Dakota says it will provide 1.8 million fewer meals over the next fiscal year unless it can replace $2.6 million lost due to cuts.

Democrats in Harrisburg say the bill’s spending cuts will have dramatic impacts in Pennsylvania. They’ve warned it could ...

The Trump Administration is trying to cut spending in the federal budget to decrease the country’s debt. But that could impact Louisianians' access to healthcare.

The Trump administration's fiscal 2026 budget-in-brief for the U.S. Department of Health and Services cuts deeply into some ...

To pay for those cuts, Republicans are stealing from federal health-care and food assistance programs by slashing $700 billion from Medicaid and $230 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...