Top Democratic Virginia legislators are launching counterprogramming to the broadsides Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has been lobbing at the spending plan. Lawmakers from the House of Delegates and Senate will hold public events around the state this week to tout the two-year spending plan they passed recently.
FILE - Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, center, delivers his State of the Commonwealth address before a joint session of the Virginia General Assembly as Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, top left, House Speaker Del. Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, and Senate President pro tempore Sen. Louis Lucas, D-Portsmouth, top right, listen, Wednesday Jan. 10, 2024, at the Capitol in Richmond, Va.
When the lawmakers were asked whether they were willing to move on from the proposed digital sales tax, they reiterated that Youngkin himself had first raised the idea — thoughYoungkin recently floated an unusual path forward, saying lawmakers should sit down with him now, ahead of the April 17 reconvened session when they will meet in Richmond to consider his proposed amendments to legislation, including the budget, which would kick in July 1.
Aubrey Layne, who served as secretary of finance under previous Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam and also advised Youngkin early in his administration, cautioned in an interview Monday that any heated rhetoric around the subject of the budget could eventually have negative implications for the state’s prized AAA credit rating.
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