The Conference Committee for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget is actively working to reconcile all spending, policy, and technical differences between the House and Senate budgets, with the goal of delivering a compromise spending bill to the...

Last week, MTF published its first Conference Committee preview for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget, Reconciling Revenue and Spending Differences Between the House and Senate Final Budgets. That brief summarized the spending and policy proposals put...

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget development process has now entered one of its final stages, Conference negotiations. The Conference Committee, led by the Chairs of the House and Senate Committees on Ways and Means, must reconcile all spending,...

On January 22nd, alongside their budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, the Healey-Driscoll administration filed the first ever Innovation and Capital Fund supplemental budget. The supplemental spending bill appropriated $1.32 billion in surplus...

On May 22nd, the Senate finalized its $61.51 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget. Over the course of four days of debate, $81.1 million in new spending was added and 66 outside policy sections were added to their spending plan. The Senate took...

Candace Reddy is chief of staff to CEO Sarah Iselin and senior vice president of government & regulatory affairs for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the largest private health plan in the state and one of the largest independent, not-for...

5 Things to Know:Senate members filed 1,058 amendments, 42 fewer than in FY 2025 and 9 more than in FY 2024.The fiscal impact of all amendments is at least $2.09 billion.*About 59% (624) of the amendments are earmarks.Approximately 41% (434) of the...

The federal government spends more than $6 trillion each year through its annual budget. The federal budget process shares some similarities with the state, but it also differs in many ways.This resource provides a basic outline of that process and...

On May 6th, the Senate Ways and Means (SWM) committee released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget proposal, six days after the House finalized its version of the spending bill following three days of debate. Spending in the SWM budget totals $61.42...

On April 31st, the House finalized its $61.58 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget, after adding $81.9 million in spending and 35 outside policy sections over the course of three days of debate. The House took action on 1,650 amendments through...