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The budget is months overdue, held up as GOP lawmakers have failed to come to a consensus on whether to use the budget to legalize casinos.

The House Freedom Caucus, a group of about 20 of the Houses more conservative members, met in private Monday with top leadership in both the House and Senate. Their votes may prove crucial as the budget drama unfolds.

One elections bill picked up bipartisan support, but another faces intense opposition from Democrats and voting rights advocates.

A GOP-backed change to election rules could let North Carolina legislators ultimately pick who wins the state in future presidential elections. Republicans say its needed for election integrity. Democrats call it a power-grab.

The week in North Carolina politics from WRALs NC Capitol team

Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023 -- Six recommendations will help assure parents, educators and taxpayers that public money granted to private schools is being used as intended and that students are in classrooms where they receive a quality education - as should EVERY North Carolina child.

Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

North Carolina lawmakers legalized mobile sports gambling this year. Theyre considering new casinos and legalization of the long-ostracized video poker industry.

With state budget talks still lingering at the General Assembly, Gov. Roy Coopers administration says it cant hit its hoped-for start date on a program that would provide health insurance to hundreds of thousands of people.

As North Carolinas General Assembly debates a major gambling expansion, rural county residents had hoped to stop a casino companys rezoning request.