Budget negotiators juggling two bills this year

Budget negotiators juggling two bills this year

BOSTON — With 33 days until the new fiscal year starts and at what one called an “all-hands-on-deck moment,” negotiators convened Thursday to begin ironing out the discrepancies between the roughly $61.4 billion state budgets the House and Senate each passed over the last month. While conference committees are about reconciling differences, the phrase “both budgets” was used repeatedly Thursday as top House and Senate Democrats actively sought t…