Iowa Down Ballot with Dave Price 5/17/25
The 2025 session is in the books and we’ll focus on the last day (technically two days?). Firstly, the second day after pulling an all nighter is always worse than the first. Dave and Kathie get into the weeds on last minute negotiations and amendments that ended up in the final budget bill that officially passed before adjournment at 6:31am Thursday. The state will be over budget and we discuss how the legislature is closing that deficit. Also the house gets their paraeducator pay raise in the budget, but decided not to play hardball on the governor signing the eminent domain bill…
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