Last-minute Missouri House budget heads to governor
(Jefferson City) -- Missouri's House of Representatives approved a budget of about $51 billion just before a Friday 6 p.m. deadline last week.
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(Jefferson City) -- Missouri's House of Representatives approved a budget of about $51 billion just before a Friday 6 p.m. deadline last week.
A set of medical provider taxes that fund a large portion of Missouri's Medicaid program won quick approval Wednesday in the House, two weeks after it took 41 hours for the bill to pass in the state Senate.
Missouri lawmakers must approve a budget by Friday at 6 p.m.
The end of a 41-hour filibuster early Thursday was a cease-fire in the Missouri Senate’s Republican civil war, not a peace settlement.
None of the demands Missouri Freedom Caucus members said must be met before they would drop a filibuster against legislation renewing taxes that fund Medicaid were achieved when the group decided to end its resistance a little before 3:30 a.m. Thursday. After a 41-hour-filibuster, the Senate gave initial approval Thursday morning to a bill renewing […] The post Freedom Caucus ends filibuster in Missouri Senate without action on its demands appeared first on Missouri Independent.