WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a Republican-led government funding bill on Friday, averting a midnight government shutdown. The result was 54-46. The bill, which some Democrats have said failed to implement any limits on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to gut federal operations,

Maine’s Democratic-controlled Legislature has pushed through a two-year, $11.3 billion budget on Thursday that plugs revenue gaps and a shortfall in the state’s Medicaid program, despite Republican objections to the spending plan.

As Maine’s legislature worked late into Thursday night to pass a budget that would allow the state to fully pay MaineCare providers and defend Maine’s forests against invasive worms, Legislative Repub