Housing, nutrition in peril as Trump pulls back Medicaid social services

The House Budget Committee is charging ahead with a key vote on the party’s package combining President Trump’s legislative priorities — even as a cohort of hard-line conservatives are vowing to

All Democrats voted against the bill Thursday morning, with Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., dubbing it “a rotten, ugly, bad bill” and Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee Brendan Boyle, D-Penn., calling it “a betrayal of the middle class.”

The School Committee’s vote to accept the FY26 budget of $75,566,339 followed public participation with more advocacy for positions and programs that are among next year’s cuts, and a discussion on how a Senate earmark by Sen.

On June 10, North Yarmouth residents will vote on two seats on the Budget Committee as well as the school budget. On June 10, North Yarmouth voters will decide who serves as a member of the Budget Committee and whether to approve the school budget.

More: Four takeaways from House hearings on Republican Medicaid, tax proposals The vote in the House Budget Committee came despite Trump's call for Republicans to "UNITE behind" the legislation.

The House budget bill that narrowly passed in an early morning vote on Thursday would effectively put the brakes on a clean energy production boom in the United States spurred by tax credits enacted in 2022.

The city budget committee rejected an amendment to strike all of the economic development agency and Prosper Portland’s general fund, in a marathon meeting at City Hall.