Pandemic spending’s permanent hangover: The bills are coming due
Returning to pre-pandemic spending levels and ending the temporary, emergency spending is being billed as "cuts," fueling the political appetite to make them permanent.
With this new federal provision, tens of thousands more families could send their children to the school of their choice without drawing from state revenue. However, there are concerns about strings that might come with it.
North Carolina lawmakers will consider implementing a federally authorized school choice tax credit program, part of the recent “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed by Congress, when they reconvene on July 29.
NC’s 2023 Medicaid expansion was passed with the promise that it would pay for itself. Now that promise is in jeopardy. The time has come for the NC GA to uphold its own law, honor that safeguard, and begin an orderly rollback of expansion before it threatens the very foundation of the Medicaid program.