From standard deduction amounts to tax brackets and Medicaid cuts, here’s what individual filers need to know about tax changes in Trump's so called "big beautiful bill."

Lawmakers did agree to pass two so-called mini budget bills, one in July and one in September, that included minor spending including authorizing step increases. Hise said the new bill would give the Office of State Budget and Management funds needed for those step increases in some state agency jobs.

Senate Democrats voted Wednesday for a 12th time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the government and keep it funded through Nov. 21. Democrats blocked the funding measure — a clean

Read our Under the Dome newsletter every Sunday that focuses on Gov. Josh Stein, who signed a spending bill as a budget impasse continues.

Some lawmakers worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive president.

Senate Democrats voted Thursday to block the annual, full-year Defense appropriations bill, despite the measure passing out of committee with strong bipartisan support earlier this year. The vote