General Assembly ends budget talks
The negotiators didn't believe they could reach agreement in time on the big issue dividing them -- Medicaid expansion -- before the scheduled end of the 2018 session on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader
"We're just too far apart," he said.
"We did a lot of work on the revenue issues, on language; we pretty much went through the whole budget once, in parts twice," said House Appropriations chairman
"When we got to the big issue, it just became apparent we didn't have the time to have that kind of discussion in time to have a budget for Saturday," he said.
Norment said the discussion of possible middle paths did not come up.
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The question of Medicaid expansion affects the entire budget because the House budget uses an estimated
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In addition, the House budget includes a new tax on hospitals to finance the state share of Medicaid expansion, a proposal that's anathema to the one Senate Republican, state Sen.
The impasse leaves two paths forward now. The first is for the
The alternative is to call a special session.
Both the
Normally, doing so would require reintroduction of budgets, which would again test whether a minority of
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