In this second installment of our series exploring the ways President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” could impact people on the local level, The Commercial-News takes a deeper look at how ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55 billion budget with tax hikes on smoking and gambling, but left proposals on transit and a ...

Va., who is also on the Senate Budget Committee, about how President Trump's tariffs will affect the federal budget and the ...

Democrats in control of the Illinois General Assembly flexed their supermajorities to muscle through a $55.2 billion state ...

Illinois’ spring session ends with a budget deal but no solution on transit, taxes or energy — leaving key challenges ...

Governor JB Pritzker visited Kumler Outreach Ministries Food Pantry in Springfield to meet with leadership and discuss the ...

Freshly departed government cost-cutting chief Elon Musk is railing against Republicans’ massive tax cut and spending bill as ...

The government would slash funding to states that have expanded Medicaid and provide coverage to immigrants who are on ...

In today’s edition … The Senate takes up House Republicans’ mega-bill … Democrats are leaping on Sen. Joni Ernst’s Medicaid ...

As Republicans move their big, beautiful bill through Congress, a group of faith leaders organized a protest to oppose it. The demonstrators argue some of the cuts in the bill will hurt the most ...

A former Homeland Security official during President Donald Trump’s first administration, who authored an anonymous op-ed ...

The White House says the changes will only impact those “who shouldn’t have ... with states like Louisiana and Illinois facing up to a 15% cut in their federal Medicaid funding. Even traditionally ...