Lawmakers reach budget deal in overtime
After missing their June 30 budget deadline for the first time in decades, the Delaware General Assembly approved a budget Sunday that restored much of the cuts to nonprofits, public health programs and schools.
They managed it by hiking taxes on real estate transfers, tobacco and alcohol.
The deal came quickly after Democrats dropped their push for an increase in the personal income tax. Republicans had refused to provide the votes to pass that bill unless Democrats considered eliminating or reworking the prevailing wage for state construction projects, among other changes.
The debate over those ideas had caused a contentious gridlock between the parties that lasted for months.
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