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Today, State House Rep. Renee Price (D-Orange) joins Aaron for an update from Raleigh. They discuss the impact of Medicaid expansion and how that issue is likely to affect this year’s budget talks; Price pushes for more public education funding at the state level; Aaron ponders an interesting quirk in state politics that’s manifested itself in both education and health care; Price considers the future of reproductive rights as the GOP weighs further abortion restrictions; and Aaron asks what more residents can do to influence the General Assembly if their own representatives are already on the same page. (Note: this conversation was recorded before news broke that State Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County might be switching parties to become a Republican.)
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