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Today’s the money day…

Members of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee gather in an early-morning workshop meeting to prepare for their biggest day of budget-setting - setting the Medicaid and public schools budgets on Friday morning. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)
Members of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee gather in an early-morning workshop meeting to prepare for their biggest day of budget-setting - setting the Medicaid and public schools budgets on Friday morning. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)

Today, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee will set budgets including Medicaid and public schools. They make up the largest piece of Idaho's state budget, and debate has been building all session over the prospect of Idaho's first-ever cut in public school funding, which the joint committee could endorse this morning. For now, the committee members have gathered for their early-morning workshop in the 5th floor library of the Capitol Annex, to go over the complex motions they may consider in their 8 a.m. meeting today.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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