Source: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 7/21/19


The issuance of ultimatums — whether real or perceived — has approval of a new state budget stuck over Medicaid expansion in North Carolina. Attempts to reach across the aisle in Raleigh for votes (Republican legislators to support expansion, Democrats to support an expansionless budget) are being decried as interloping, if not bribery, with GOP offers of earmarking money in the budget for special projects in Eastern North Carolina to sway those Democratic legislators.

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