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Do you think in your mind if this dream ever came true? >> i suspect my lifetime likely the answer to that question has to be never. there is been talk over the years of things called zero base budget where you start all over again and you have to justify programs why there is an affirmative decision to keep it rather than a negative decision of lets not get rid of it. it does not happen and i think if it did happen, we would find a lot of stuff that we dont need to do anymore that we can elimin...

Key Budget Items (click HERE for full Summary): Supports FY2022 total General Fund appropriations of $1.99 billion. Supports base spending with base funding. Fully funds state retirement and debt obligations. Maintains all statutory reserve levels. As part of the Governor’s ongoing pandemic response, he proposes using $210 million in one-time funding for economic recovery through investments in housing, infrastructure, broadband buildout, environmental stewardship, carbon reducing initiatives...

[co-authors: Katelyn Kingsbury and Andrew Moretz, Government Relations Advisors] Government officials in both Raleigh and Washington have started work in 2021. In Raleigh, the Council of State, which includes Gov. Roy Cooper, has taken office, and the North Carolina General Assembly has started its session. In Washington, President Joe Biden was sworn in this week and Congress has begun its work.      North Carolina Council of State Seven members of the Council of State, which is composed ...

Senator Ballard Re-Appointed To Education Committees Published: 14 January 2021 North Carolina State Senator Deanna Ballard (R-Watauga) has announced that Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) re-appointed her as Co-Chair to both the Education/Higher Education Policy Committee and the Appropriations on Education/Higher Education Committee. As a member of the Education Committees, Senator Ballard will work on issues of importance, including getting students safely back into the class...

Right back where we have been in the past. >> maria: yeah. >> that north korea will have nuclearized missiles and theyre going to bet the united states will accept them. >> maria: incredible. great analysis there. let me switch gears for a moment before you go. general and get you to talk a bit about the readiness of our army, navy, air force, et cetera given the fact that weve been talking about budget issues all morning with the tax plan and the budget passed recently. do you believe that ther...

Into a special separate fund called the overseas contingency fund which means it isnt in the base budget so it doesnt necessari necessarily become part of next years budget. on the discretionary spending side, all those programs he wanted to cut by $15 billion, he got exactly zero. the $540 billion in the obama request is still the $540 billion. he wanted, for example, to cut a billion and a half out of nah which actually increased by $2 billion. he wanted to sezero out public broadcasting. >> h...

Important. >> its not a balanced budget. still a $488 billion deficit next year. we didnt add to that in order to spend more money on the presidents priorities. regarding moving projects out of the base budget for the agencies and into the infrastructure, the infrastructure program is something that we just recently started. probably wouldnt come until summer or early fall. we have to do obamacare repeal and replace and then taxes next. i -- youre making an assumption im not willing to make. you...

Operation and the base budget. its 3%. $18 billion. >> has the president got the balance right here between defense spending and the diplomatic portion of the federal budget which hes planning on making cuts to? >> thats the challenge that he and his budget people are going to have to work through. at this point from her perspective, i think speak only for myself, from a national security perspective, this $18 billion is the right thing. if he has to go forward and pick and choose among a variet...

Year. you know, its such a hypocrisy. it is one of the reasons everybody in america is so disgusted with us, that we cant be honest with the american people about the needs of our country and come together in a bipartisan way to meet them in a way that is responsible in terms of the way that we budget and spend money. tell me how you intend on addressing this important issue going forward. >> senator, the need for our country to maintain a safe and secure nuclear deterrent, a decisive convention...