With the 2025 session just around the corner, legislative leaders from the four caucuses have expressed their varying views ...

Jay Inslee has declared a spending freeze for Washington state government agencies in response ... A Nov. 8 memo from Inslee’s budget director cited a projected operating budget shortfall ...

Further complicating matters is the fact that the budget gap does not include the almost $1.4 billion needed to pay for the two-year collective bargaining agreements negotiated with state employee ...