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Monmouth County is expected to maintain its tax rate for the upcoming year.

The Democratic-led Senate has rejected conditions that House Republicans attached to a temporary spending bill.

The GOP-controlled House is cruising toward a vote to gut President Barack Obama's health care plan as part of a temporary funding bill to prevent a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1.

After predictions of the worst, Toms River Township’s 2013 budget will manage to leave the average homeowner unscathed.

At the end of last week, there was a great deal of talk about the horrible effects across the nation that would take place if the automatic federal budget cuts that were triggered by the sequester took effect.

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The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders approved a $487 million dollar budget for 2012.

Tuesday night, Brick Township voters, taxpayers and members of its Township Council all get their first glimpse of the austerity budget that Mayor Steve Acropolis and Borough Administrator Scott Pezzaras have crafted.

An aide to House Speaker John Boehner  says the speaker told President Barack Obama Wednesday that he should try to get Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to negotiate on a full-year extension of the payroll tax cut that's scheduled to expire in less than two weeks.

The deadline has arrived, and there's no deal. Aides to the leaders of the deficit-cutting panel in Congress say they're likely to announce today that the panel's work has ended, unsuccessfully.