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House leaders outline priorities: budget cuts, school‑finance, water, housing and immigration
Summary
Speaker Julie McCluskey and Minority Leader Rose Pugliese used opening‑day remarks to outline competing priorities: the speaker emphasized protecting progress on education, water and climate goals while noting a $1 billion budget shortfall; the minority leader emphasized affordability, parental choice, and protecting the Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
Speaker Julie McCluskey and Minority Leader Rose Pugliese addressed the House on opening day to outline their priorities for the 75th General Assembly, touching on budget shortfalls, education finance, water and natural‑resource concerns, housing and immigration.
Speaker Julie McCluskey said the legislature would need to ‘‘trim nearly $1,000,000,000 from our state budget’’ while protecting safety‑net services and the bipartisan investments the House has made in early childhood and higher education. She pledged not to restore the budget stabilization factor and said the state would implement the new…
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