Tag: 2025-27 biennium budget

The Senate’s budget, unveiled

The Senate’s budget proposal for the 2025-27 biennium is going to include $638 million in additional funding for the new children’s hospital UNC Health and Duke Health intend to build, Senate leader Phil Berger says. Counting prior appropriations, that would raise the state’s total contribution to the project to $855 million, Berger said. He added […]

Written by on April 17, 2025

Pensions

State Treasurer Brad Briner’s and Gov. Josh Stein’s aides are at odds about the governor’s 2025-27 biennium budget request, which Briner’s team sees as shortchanging the state’s pension system. Via a news release, Briner said he was “disappointed the governor is proposing for only the second time in 83 years to not fully fund our state’s retirement system.” […]

Written by on March 21, 2025