North Carolina’s plan to expand Medicaid coverage to up to 600,000 residents cleared one of its final hurdles early Friday morning when lawmakers approved the state budget, concluding 11th-hour gamesmanship that had threatened to upend a deal 13 years in the making.
The two-year, $60 billion budget also includes tax cuts, raises for most state employees, and a major expansion of private school vouchers, among other Republican priorities. It now needs only a signature from Gov. Roy Cooper (D).
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