OLYMPIA — Washington Senate and House budget leaders say they are weighing several options as they prepare for a "major pivot" after Gov. Bob Ferguson announced Tuesday that neither version of the operating budget proposals by Democratic lawmakers are

Washington Senate Democrats are proposing new taxes on the wealthy to combat a projected $13 billion budget deficit.

Lawmakers in the Washington House and Senate recently revealed their respective budget proposals for solving the state’s massive shortfall. Gov. Bob Ferguson said Tuesday that he wouldn’t sign off on either.

WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada.

The Senate passed a resolution late Wednesday that would thwart President Donald Trump's ability to impose tariffs on Canada, delivering him a rare rebuke just hours after the president unveiled plans to clamp down on international trade.

GOP lawmakers rejected a pressure campaign from the Trump administration to adhere to party loyalty on "Liberation Day."

U.S. President Donald Trump smashed a more than 75-year-old global trading system with a new baseline 10% U.S. tariff on goods from all countries and higher reciprocal tariff rates for countries that his administration says have high barriers to U.

US President Donald Trump announced a sweeping new set of tariffs on Wednesday, arguing that they would allow the United States to economically flourish. These new import taxes, which Trump imposed via executive order,

Updates and the latest news as Democrat wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, Republicans win House seats in Florida and Trump announces sweeping tariffs on imports.

President Donald Trump's move to slap a 10% tariff on most goods imported to the United States, as well as much higher levies on dozens of rivals and allies alike, has intensified a global trade war that threatens to stoke inflation and stall growth.

US President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs Wednesday, saying he would apply a minimum 10% levy on all exporters to the US. The Republican asserted that dozens of countries with the largest trade imbalances will face even higher rates.

Trump announced he was signing an executive order “instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world. Reciprocal—that means they do it to us and we do it to them.” In practice, the White House said that will translate into a new 10 percent tariff on all imported goods,