Returning lawmakers won’t have federal windfall to lean on

PBN Staff

01/03/2025

MINDING  THE GAP: State lawmakers return to work facing a looming budget deficit and a host of other challenges. Pictured is a legislative study commission on climate change at the Statehouse.  PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

After three years of doling out hundreds of millions in COVID-relief funding, the next General Assembly session will be facing projected budget cuts of more than $330 million. “A lot of people have gotten used to the federal money,” House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi acknowledged to PBN in this week’s cover story. But this coming

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