Budget Plan

The budget designates nearly $26 billion in spending this fiscal year, and $27 billion the next. North Carolina is the final state in the nation to get a budget.

At a news conference Tuesday, Governor Roy Cooper said the budget gets some things wrong, and many things right, including raises and bonuses for teachers. He issued his comments just before the Senate gave its initial approval to the spending proposal.

The budget plan would provide 5% raises to nearly all state employees, reduce taxes, and save billions in the rainy day fund. But it remains unclear if this budget will receive the approval of Governor Roy Cooper, or serve merely as the latest stop in a three-year budget impasse.

The North Carolina General Assembly is two months late on finalizing a two-year budget, even as the state expects to take in billions of dollars more than it had earlier forecast.

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