'It's infuriating': A breakdown of how the budget broke down

North Carolina House and Senate Republicans remain at odds, both on the budget itself and why negotiations tanked.

House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger (left to right) have found themselves at odds over the budget.

It’s been a frenetic past 24 hours in the legislature. To break it all down, we need to begin with some context on how bad things have gotten…

If you had said at the beginning of this year’s legislative session that Republican lawmakers wouldn’t increase funding for school vouchers or pass a bill compelling local sheriffs to cooperate with ICE (a measure that passed in two previous sessions), nobody would have believed you.

Yet as lawmakers ready for summer break, that’s precisely where things stand right now. And there’s no new budget coming anytime soon.