The bill contains mostly commonsense measures to curb waste and abuse and to cut back on things that the government shouldn’t be doing.

Gov. Maura Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a proposal to empower her administration with greater ...

With the state facing a hazy fiscal future, Healey also asked lawmakers to give her the expanded power to cut across state ...

If the U.S. government were a private-sector company, it would have filed for bankruptcy long ago to wash away its debt. But ...

Legislators are offering Healey some bulwarks against federal or economic upheaval. Negotiators scaled back their original ...

The 2017 bill brought about sweeping, albeit temporary, changes to the tax code. Provisions which nearly doubled the standard ...