Senate Republicans are looking to change how extending many of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts would be scored when it comes to future federal deficits. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that ...

Montana's budget clears its first hurdle as House lawmakers approve a $16.6 billion document for the next two years.

It’s good to be back after the longest hiatus I have taken in more than six years of writing. It’s also good after writing six end-of-legislature columns, to finally write ...

A 2018 law gave the Wisconsin Legislature final decisionmaking power over civil settlements, creating a sticky situation for the state attorney general who must answer to voters if those lawsuits go ...

In response to multiple federal district judges temporarily halting President Donald Trump’s executive actions, Republicans ...

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is suing the GOP-controlled General Assembly over what the lawsuit calls the legislature’s ...

Leader’s Frankfort reporters recount the highs, lows, tension and outright anger that unfolded in this year’s ...

The story of the 22nd Amendment, which became part of the Constitution 74 years ago after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was ...

The only time lawmakers take issue with a president infringing on their constitutional prerogatives, if not outright usurping them, is when it’s the other party’s guy doing the infringing. Perhaps ...

A new proposal on Capitol Hill takes aim at DOGE while proposing guardrails to reassert congressional oversight authority ...

Some years back, I fired off a forgettable social media post referencing the “three co-equal branches” of government. A friend — a smart journalist steeped in American political history — ...

Some years back, I fired off a forgettable social media post referencing the “three coequal branches” of government. A friend — a smart journalist steeped in American political history — responded ...