Perdue Turns Her Back on North Carolina’s Children: Rejects critical education and Medicaid dollars, literacy reforms, first raise for teachers in five years

Raleigh, N.C. – Gov. Beverly Perdue today announced she will veto a $20.2 billion budget adjustment that invests in many key priorities after state lawmakers refused several unreasonable demands to hike taxes by nearly a billion dollars, raid critical dollars for Medicaid, or create a massive revenue shortfall for the next governor and General Assembly to address.

Below is a joint statement from Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg):

“Gov. Perdue uses apocalyptic language to explain her veto, and yet the difference between the dollars she demanded and what we budgeted is a fraction of one percent of the total budget. The fact that she would reject hundreds of millions in additional state funding for public schools (more…)