GOVERNMENT

The Legislative Finance Committee will consider the proposed cuts next month before Gov. Steve Bullock makes his final recommendations.

"The resolution that the council adopted inadvertently excluded a couple of items, and in fact there are three areas that we discovered errors on that we do need to correct." Dale Bickell, chief administrative officer, city of Missoula

Trump administration officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost.

It launched in the summer bearing no acknowledgement that it was a product of an official party committee whose sole purpose is to get more Republicans elected.

There is fraud, Mr. Stapleton, and it’s been perpetuated by you on the citizens of Montana when you’ve given them a reason not to trust the results of a free and open election. This is nothing more than a farce, designed to incense lawmakers who will then take steps to make voting unnecessarily difficult which would have the effect of disenfranchising entire blocs of voters.

A deputy assistant administrator for the Food Safety and Inspection Service told Bart Riley in a letter more than two years after he filed an official complaint: "Regarding willful harassment … five allegations were substantiated."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and a dozen other Democrats introduced a bill on Friday that seeks to end a major frustration for consumers who’ve sought to protect themselves from the Equifax data breach.