General Assembly budget leaders finally have something to agree on: they want an additional $1.6 billion from Virginia data centers over the next two years, one way or another.
But that informal agreement between Senate Finance Chair Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, and House Appropriations Chairman Luke Torian, D-Prince William, doesn’t mean a deal anytime soon on a new two-year state budget. The legislature convened on Thursday in a special session without a budget deal in sight, or much said about it.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
