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Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will approve $100 million in the upcoming year’s state budget for cancer research, $37 million more than in the current year.

House Democrats made changes to Biden's Build Back Better framework. The $1.75 T bill includes paid family leave, help with prescription drug costs and immigration reforms. Here are the details.

In areas overwhelmed by COVID cases, hospitals must rely on traveling nurses to operate ICUs. Hospitals pay a premium for that temporary help, while also struggling to keep their staff nurses happy.

The bill heads off fiscal calamity and puts an end — for now — to tense negotiations over the federal debt limit.

Republicans' opposition leaves the federal government teetering on the brink of a partial shutdown.

Democrats are hoping to use a maneuver called budget reconciliation to pass a big economic plan over Republican objections. Here's what you need to know about the process.

Over the next few weeks, South Florida commissioners and council members will be voting on the priorities and departments that will be funded thanks — in great part — to contributions from taxpayers like you.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through a $3.5 trillion budget framework Tuesday after an impasse with centrist Democrats threatened to derail progress on President Biden's domestic agenda.

Narrow margins in both the House and Senate and significant philosophical divisions inside the party mean Democratic leaders face a difficult task steering the massive bill.

In the pandemic, child care has gotten the attention of policymakers like never before, and billions of dollars in emergency funds have stabilized the industry. Biden wants more.

State lawmakers, advised this week about limited tax dollars amid the COVID-19 pandemic, have already proposed 43 hometown projects worth more than $45 million. And hundreds more are expected before the 2021 legislative session starts in early March.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hovered over just about every aspect of our lives and our local economy for the past six months. But the pandemic hasn’t stopped things like elections from happening and it won’t stop county commissions from discussing the upcoming budget for the 2021 fiscal year.