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Montana House committee advances main state budget bill, full House debate next week

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The Montana Legislatures biggest task every two years is setting the state budget. Next week, the Montana House is set to tackle the main budget bill.House Bill 2 lays out more than $8 billion in spending for each of the next two years, for a total of $16.6 billion. That includes roughly $5.1 billion from the state general fund, with the rest coming from other state revenue sources and from federal funds. Since the start of the legislative sessi…

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Montana legislators scrutinize budget, strategize, in face of federal appetite for cuts

The Montana State Capitol in Helena on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (Photo by Mike Clark for the Daily Montanan)It’s a lot of money — $7.3 billion. Those are the federal dollars accounted for in the main budget bill for the state of Montana, nearly half of the $16.4 billion total for the next biennium. Now, some of those dollars might be at risk, or at least subject to stricter scrutiny. President Donald Trump, newly sworn into a second term, has …

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Montana House committee advances main state budget bill, full House debate next week

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The Montana Legislature this week heard testimony on two high-profile federal land management bills

The Montana Legislature this week heard testimony on two high-profile bills seeking to assert lawmakers’ views on hot-button federal land management issues.

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