Senate approves budget counterproposal calling for lower pay raises, steeper tax cuts

After a final procedural vote on Thursday, the Senate's budget will go to the House. Both chambers will then spend the next several weeks working out their budget differences.

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger, a Republican who represents Guilford and Rockingham counties, attends a legislative session on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023.

North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday approved a budget plan that seeks to provide more sizable tax cuts but lower pay raises for teacher and state workers than the House’s b…