Democrats stripped amendments from a host of bills and sent them back to the Republican governor, who so far has signaled willingness to negotiate on only one.
week, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and leading Virginia Democrats are heading into the unknown territory of a state budget do-over.on Wednesday to avert a standoff that could have triggered a state government shutdown and tarnished Virginia’s stellar bond rating.
Youngkin and Democrats had been at each other’s throats for the past month over the budget and other bills, lobbing harsh rhetoric on social media and in. Youngkin kicked things off in March by skewering the bipartisan spending plan as a “backward budget” and the rhetoric only cranked up from there, with House Speaker Don L. Scott Jr. Youngkin and legislators said they called a time out on the budget to cool partisan passions.
“If the governor holds true to form — unless he’s found a new spirit of conciliation — there’s probably going to be another couple dozen vetoes,” he said in an interview Thursday. In the same gathering, Scott also lambasted Youngkin’s rewrite of the skill games legislation as overly aggressive. Skill games — which look and operate much like video-style slot machines but are said to involve an element of skill — were one of the hardest-fought issues of the session. Advocates called them a lifeline for mom-and-pop convenience stores while critics warned they would turn corner stores into mini casinos.calling for stricter oversight, capping the number of machines at 20,000 statewide, giving localities the authority to ban the machines and imposing a 35 percent tax on game revenue.
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