Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 9/2/21

State government will likely go into the fall without a new state budget providing employee raises and laying out major projects the state will undertake over the next two years, a key Senate leader said this week. And that's if top state leaders come to an agreement at all. "We’re still having conversations," Senate President Pro Tem  Phil Berger \told reporters Wednesday afternoon. "I think we’ve narrowed down the items we need to agree to in order to start, in earnest, hammering out some final provisions in the budget."

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