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Indiana’s Medicaid program will cost about $1 billion more in the current state budget than previously expected.
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The state Legislature capped weeks of negotiations Wednesday with the adoption of an $81.7 billion state budget. It now goes to Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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Republicans hailed the 2023 legislative session as one that saw “generational investments” in education, health care and economic development. Democrats wonder how much more could and should have been done.
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Indiana lawmakers will have about $1.5 billion more to work with in the new state budget than previously expected.
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The state budget plan from Senate Republicans does not include any expansion of the state’s school voucher program – marking a major split from the House GOP.
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House Republicans sent their proposed budget to the Senate Thursday, where disagreement likely looms over tax cuts and school voucher expansion.
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The governor is expected to announce a plan to spend $160 million in the state budget to offer free school breakfast and lunch to all Michigan students.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the first public act of the new year Tuesday — a $1.1 billion spending bill that includes money for housing and assistance for businesses that suffered losses due to COVID-19.
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Michigan local governments recieved more than $4 billion in funding through the American Rescue Plan Act, and hundreds of millions of dollars of that is planned to be spent in 2023.
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Gov. Eric Holcomb said the new state revenue forecast is “rosier” than he anticipated. But he said it still calls for a “discerning” approach to writing a new state budget.