The Senate budget proposal would spend about $59 billion in state money over the next two years, on top of allocating about $7 billion in unused federal aid money.
The largest portions of the federal relief money would go toward reopening K-12 schools and addressing student learning loss ($1.7 billion), as well as distributing vaccines and improving the response to COVID-19 ($1.1 billion).
Senators would also tap about $1.8 billion from Washington’s own rainy day fund to help add about $1 billion in state money for school reopening, as well as to reduce spikes in unemployment taxes that some businesses are facing.
“If this isn’t a rainy day, what is?”
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