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Kentucky lawmakers returned to work Tuesday for a 60-day session that’ll be dominated by negotiations over the next state budget, with Republican supermajorities in both chambers once again shaping Bluegrass State policies even as voters have extended an era of divided government by reelecting Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. Both the …

White House budget chief Russell Vought said Wednesday that he expects the number of federal employees laid off to get “much higher” in the coming days. Vought, who is the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has led an effort to lay off thousands of nonessential federal …