State employees and school teachers will have to wait. So will university presidents, sheriff’s deputies, correctional officers and advocates for economic development.
Virginia won’t have a new state budget anytime soon.
A breakdown in budget talks between the House of Delegates and Senate on Thursday ensures that the General Assembly won’t complete its most important job in time for its scheduled adjournment on Saturday.
Instead, the legislature is likely to seek a special session to settle a budget battle that pivots on whether to accept billions of dollars in federal money to expand Medicaid coverage for more than 300,000 uninsured Virginians.
