Staff reports | State lawmakers got to work in their first week of the session on budgeting billions of extra tax and aid dollars. Unlike most years in which legislators focus only on divvying up state revenues, this year they have two extra budgets to develop to spend $525 million from a settlement involving the Savannah River Site as well as $2.5 billion in federal pandemic aid. There’s also a surplus of more than $2 billion for the 2022-23 budget from extra past revenues and predicted growth.
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