Source: Gary D. Robertson, WRAL, 8/9/21

 North Carolina House Republicans would put more money now toward infrastructure projects and pay teachers and state employees more in their two-year budget proposal compared to what the Senate voted for earlier this summer. The House spending plan, the subject of a Monday news conference by GOP leaders, would not go as far on cutting income tax rates as Republican senators advanced in their competing budget bill. Instead, the House would give COVID-19 tax breaks to those who got a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan or received unemployment benefits last year.

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