The Alaska Legislature on Wednesday approved a stopgap budget bill amid an ongoing debate among lawmakers around war-driven oil revenues and whether to draw from state savings.
The stopgap budget bill contains $449.6 million in state spending including for disaster relief, construction, education, correctional officer overtime and some public assistance programs — expenses accrued since the Legisl...
In a complex political maneuver, the Alaska Legislature approved a stopgap budget bill amid ongoing debates around war-driven oil revenues and drawing from state savings. The bill contains $449.6 million in state spending accrued since last year's budget adoption, with legislators banking on anticipated oil revenue to fund it rather than drawing from savings initially. However, a vote to confirm drawing from savings again failed in the House on Wednesday — the fourth such vote this year, highlig...