The same day that Governor Healey signed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget, while trimming $130.2 million in spending, she filed a supplemental budget proposing several fiscal management tools to help the state address revenue volatility or unmet...

On July 4th, Governor Healey signed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget; sending back $130.2 million in spending vetoes. Inclusive of the Governor’s budget actions, line-item spending in the FY 2026 budget would total $60.9 billion, a $3.1 billion (5.4...

The House and Senate are preparing to enact a Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget, totaling $61.03  billion in line-item spending. The compromise budget includes $443.4 million less in spending than the final House budget and $395.1 million less in...

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...