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State budget approved by the House and being sent to the Governor for approval JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The state budget has been passed by the House and will move onto Gov. Mike Parson's desk and needs to be signed by July 1, the beginning of the state's fiscal year. The state budget will need to be passed for 2022. The anticipated budget will be around $35 billion dollars. Some of the more controversial topics on the budget deal with the subjects of education, transportation, and Medicaid funding. The budget increased funding for public schools, hospitals and nursing hom...

JEFFERSON CITY – The state budget is flush with cash, and lawmakers put it to use today. Members of the House and Senate came together to hammer out discrepancies in the $34 billion state budget. The proposed budget, hammered out by a conference committee Wednesday, includes funding for many one-time projects, including improvements to the Capitol building. “We accomplished a lot of things” in the budget proposal, Senate Appropriations Chair Dan Hegeman, R-Cosby, said. Much of the reason for that success is the billions in additional federal funding that Missouri has received t...

Missouri Republicans fight 'will of the people' as they push limits on direct democracy Jonathan Shorman and Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star © TIM BOMMEL/TNS Cody Smith, right, a Carthage Republican, chairs a House Budget Committee meeting on March 22, 2021, with staff member Chris Dunn, center, and vice chair Dirk Deaton, a Noel Republican. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, — When Missouri voters approved Medicaid expansion in August, the results weren't all that close. The constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility to upward of 275,000 residents passed 53.3...

A Democratic state representative from Missouri accused Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani of lying to overturn the presidential election in a hearing held by a state committee Dec. 14. The former New York City mayor responded by calling the lawmaker dangerous to democracy. The exchange came during a House Special Committee on Government Oversight hearing on a resolution asking Congress to reject the electoral votes of six states won by President-elect Joe Biden if claims of fraud are not investigated. Most of South County’s GOP delegation signed the letter from 66 lawmakers asking for an inve...

By Rudi Keller  Missouri Independent A Democratic state representative on Monday accused President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani of lying to overturn the presidential election. The former New York City mayor responded by calling the lawmaker dangerous to democracy. The exchange came during a House Special Committee on Government Oversight hearing on a resolution asking Congress to reject the electoral votes of six states won by President-elect Joe Biden if claims of fraud are not investigated. After ticking off the Republican officials and judges who have rejected claims of fraud and other ...