Des Moines, Iowa — A small group of legislators returned to the statehouse Wednesday to begin negotiations among Republicans on the spending plan for the state fiscal year that starts July 1st.
Republican Governor Kim Reynolds says there’s no real impasse on the state budget and differences will be resolved quickly.
House Republicans have drafted and passed budget bills for all state agencies and operations. Senate Republicans have not, passing only the DOT budget out of the Senate Appropriations Committee on April 13th. Senate GOP leaders say their overall spending target of about eight-point-two billion dollars matches the governor’s proposed budget plan. House Republicans are proposing spending about 70 million dollars more than that.
