US budget

GOP leaders come to budget agreement

May 12, 2026 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s top Republican legislative leaders said Tuesday they have reached a framework agreement to break a nearly yearlong budget impasse, announcing plans for the largest average teacher pay raise in nearly two […]

Stein proposes $35B budget

April 30, 2026 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Gov. Josh Stein released his recommended budget for the 2026-27 biennium last week, proposing total General Fund appropriations of $33.3 billion in the first year and $35.44 billion in the second. The House and Senate […]

Stein issues $1.4B ‘critical needs budget’

March 19, 2026 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein released a proposed $1.4 billion “critical needs budget” he says is needed to address urgent shortfalls in state operations amid the General Assembly’s budget stalemate. Released last Monday, […]

Budget conference report approved by General Assembly

September 19, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly passed its budget conference report contained in House Bill 10 last week. The bill includes $248 million in nonrecurring funds to clear the waitlist for […]

House, Senate offer budget adjustment bills

June 27, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Both chambers of the General Assembly have issued their budget adjustment proposals but disagree about the amount of spending and from what state reserves that spending will come. The state currently has a […]

Cooper releases final budget proposal

May 1, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper released the final budget proposal of his two-term tenure on April 24. The 223-page proposal is for FY 2024-2025 and has more than $34.5 billion in appropriations. “This budget is […]

GINGRICH: It is time to balance the federal budget again

February 10, 2022 Newt Gingrich

The national debt has passed $30 trillion. It is clearly time to start talking about balancing the federal budget. The explosion of federal debt has been astonishing. In 1980, the national debt was $908 billion. […]

Pelosi upbeat on Biden deal but Manchin pans billionaire tax

October 27, 2021 Lisa Mascaro, Aamer Madhani and Alan Fram, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told colleagues Wednesday that Democrats are in “pretty good shape” on President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic plan, but fresh problems emerged as a pivotal Democrat panned a new […]

HILL: Joe Manchin is no budget hero — but Kyrsten Sinema might be

October 6, 2021 Frank Hill

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin pretty much stuck a fork in the Radical Left-Wing Progressive Socialists’ (RLWPS, for short) aggressive and dangerous spending agenda when he announced that he would not support their so-called “human […]

Biden’s $6T budget: Social spending, taxes on business

June 3, 2021 Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden is proposing a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class, but his generosity depends on taxing […]