Budgets: Pay boost, school security, highway funds

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State workers, public educators and Virginia’s disabled are big winners in House and Senate budgets advanced Sunday by the budget-writing committees of Virginia’s General Assembly.

But a partisan spat erupted in the Senate over the expansion of Medicaid eligibility, which could mire the budget for weeks or more in profound and protracted differences for the second year in a row.

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