Source: Gary D. Robertson, WRAL, 5/29/19

The North Carolina Senate is set to vote Thursday on the Republicans' two-year budget proposal that would give raises to state employees and slash corporate franchise tax rates, and could relocate over 2,000 state positions in Raleigh to a rural county. The GOP proposal, which would spend $23.9 billion in the fiscal year starting July 1, was quickly approved Wednesday by three Senate panels, before the first of two required floor votes.

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