STATE HOUSE — The Baker administration on Friday ordered the immediate suspension of all state spending on "non-essential" goods and services in an array of categories, including outside consultants, leases and office equipment and computers.
The directive is part of an effort to balance this year's $38.4 billion state budget in the face of underperforming tax revenues and with only two months remaining in the fiscal year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans suggested on Sunday that Donald Trump needs more public policy schooling, particularly on foreign affairs, to earn the confidence of a fractured party and show he's ready to take on likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
"I think he's going to need to learn. He's going to need to understand really completely … how complex this world is," said Trump's top Senate ally and top foreign policy adviser, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
