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A new $5.6B two-year budget was approved by the Senate Finance Committee for the state of New Hampshire.
A new state budget for New Hampshire has made its way to the Senate floor for a vote later this week, WMUR reported.
If the proposal passes, there will be disagreements on budgeting to resolve between Republicans in the Senate.
The two-year $5.6 billion stated budget was approved by the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday. Senators said they had to face the first budget unlined with federal money since 2020.
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“Now, we have to go back to the New Hampshire way of living within our means,” said Senate President Sharon Carson.
Democrats said the Senate budget is an improvement, but they still want more funding for housing, according to WMUR.
"What I want to emphasize is we can't confuse a budget being better with a budget being adequate," said Minority Leader Rebecca Perkins Kwoka.
"This isn't a budget that reflects Granite Staters' priorities."
The Senate is also no longer cutting Medicaid rates and funding assistance for people with disabilities, laying fewer people off in corrections, and bringing back the Office of the Child Advocate and the Arts Council, WMUR reported.
"I am personally disappointed in our funding of higher education, both the university system and community college system," said state Senator Dan Innis, R-Bradford.
"These places have amazing staff, wonderful students, and they add so much value to our communities and to our state, and we need to start viewing both of these entities as investments in New Hampshire's future, not as expenses."
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The Senate budget with updated revenue projections and the House budget from April is nearly $240 million, according to WMUR.
The Senate and the House will have to deal with this notable gap.
"We're going to work this out," Carson said.
"There are a couple of things that we disagree about, but I think at the end of the day, as Republicans, we're going to come together and do the best thing for the state of New Hampshire."
