Breaking down the fiscal issues that will dominate 2025 legislative session
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Lawmakers will convene Wednesday to begin drafting the state's next two-year budget, determining how to spend approximately $44 billion dollars to fund government services such as schools, health insurance programs and infrastructure as well as tackling other fiscal issues.
Niki Kelly from Indiana Capitol Chronicle joins to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Casey, we've mentioned it several times today, but tomorrow. |
| 0:03.6 | Big day. |
| 0:04.2 | Big day at the state house. |
| 0:06.4 | Our fabulous friends, the smartest and brightest amongst us, they're, well, they're back. |
| 0:11.8 | They're back to, I mean, due damage is a strong phrase, but it really never usually goes well for us. |
| 0:18.0 | Did you see that Eric Holcomb's final state of the state address is going to be on, |
| 0:22.4 | oh no, he already did that. Never mind. Yeah, he's out. He's done. No, we don't have to listen to him anymore. |
| 0:25.5 | No, totally he's done. I was like, what are you about to tell me? No, nothing. So the General Assembly comes |
| 0:30.5 | back tomorrow. We do this every year are one of the best sets of reporting that takes place on the General Assembly is over at the Indiana |
| 0:38.0 | Capitol Chronicle. And so each week, our good friend Nikki Kelly, she's the head honcho, |
| 0:43.2 | shall we say, over there at the Indiana Capitol Chronicle. She joins us to kind of get us up |
| 0:48.3 | to date on some of the bigger bills and things that are going on. Well, we're going to find out |
| 0:50.5 | what they're spending $44 billion on. Well, we'll see what's going on. |
| 0:54.9 | And so kind of give us a preview of some of the bigger things that will be taking place this year. |
| 0:58.5 | Nikki Kelly joins us now in the WIBC hotline. |
| 1:00.8 | Nikki Kelly, hello. |
| 1:02.9 | Hello and happy new year. |
| 1:04.5 | Yes, same to you. |
| 1:05.9 | All right. |
| 1:06.3 | So you guys kind of had an expose yesterday in the Capitol Chronicle on some of the bigger things. |
| 1:12.4 | You've been writing some pieces about this. |
| 1:14.7 | Let's start with, let's start with the budget. |
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