South Carolina budget plans draw protests and changes
The seventh week of the legislative session sees a $5.2 billion budget with cuts to welfare Medicaid and higher education sparking a planned March 12 rally. Lawmakers tackle welfare payments charter funding gun laws and the USC medical expansion study while snow days and cabinet confirmations cap the week.
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