Lawmakers say they still have not resolved what to do about those key issues.
The two chambers also had competing visions for what to do with billions of dollars in one-time money the state has. The Senate called for deeper cuts to the state’s personal income tax rate than the House did. Leaders of the House and Senate still have disagreements about what should be included in the state budget. “Tying it to the budget is tying our hands, and the legislature should decouple the two and start Medicaid Expansion now.” “Making Medicaid Expansion contingent on passing the budget was and is unnecessary, and now the failure of Republican legislators to pass the budget is ripping health care away from thousands of real people and costing our state and our hospitals millions of dollars,” Gov.
When Republicans agreed to expand Medicaid coverage to more than half a million low-income people earlier this year, they made that contingent on the state budget being enacted. The new fiscal year began July 1 with no new budget in place.
Roy Cooper (D) urged Republican lawmakers on Monday to allow Medicaid expansion to go into effect right away as leaders of the General Assembly have not reached an agreement on what to include in the state budget.
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