{"pk":46979,"title":"Two Factions Walk into a Budget Session","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>The 67th Wyoming Legislature’s 20-day budget session was convened Thursday, February 8, 2024, for the beginning of its work in Cheyenne. This year, outside of its typical budget work, over 360 bills were brought forward by both legislative committees and individual legislators. These bills ranged from property tax relief to health care. In the end, on Friday March 8th, the final biennial General Fund budget was close to $3.8 billion – up approximately $100 million from the previous biennium. Deep ideological divides within the state’s dominant Republican Party drove much debate and show no signs of abating before next year’s general session.</p>","language":null,"license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"state budgeting"},{"word":"Wyoming"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1br934wp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jason","middle_name":"","last_name":"McConnell","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schuhmann","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2025-01-09T21:50:28Z","date_accepted":"2025-01-09T21:50:28Z","date_published":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cjpp/article/46979/galley/35511/download/"}]}