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July 23, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Roy Cooper
It’s the fourth week of the fiscal year, however, legislators and the Governor have yet to agree on a new budget for North Carolina.
24 min
July 23, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Roy Cooper
It’s the fourth week of the fiscal year, however, legislators and the Governor have yet to agree on a new budget for North Carolina. Democrat Roy Cooper and Republican legislators are in a standstill over whether, and then how, to expand Medicaid – the federal healthcare program for people living in poverty and with disabilities. On this episode of the WUNC Politics Podcast, Gov. Cooper discusses the policy and politics of Medicaid expansion, a new candidate for the 2020 gubernatorial race, as
24 min
July 17, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: Berger And Medicaid Expansion
North Carolina State lawmakers and the governor have still not agreed on a new spending plan for the budget year which began now more than two weeks ago.
28 min
July 17, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: Berger And Medicaid Expansion
North Carolina State lawmakers and the governor have still not agreed on a new spending plan for the budget year which began now more than two weeks ago. The biggest sticking point appears to still be the issue of Medicaid expansion.
28 min
July 12, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Robert Reives
There was plenty of budget discussion at the North Carolina General Assembly this week. But for now, still no agreement on a state spending plan. Many Democrats, led by the Governor, are pushing for the expansion of Medicaid as part of any compromise. Some Republicans, led by legislative leaders, continue to balk at that request, and say the minority party is holding the budget hostage.
29 min
July 12, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Robert Reives
There was plenty of budget discussion at the North Carolina General Assembly this week. But for now, still no agreement on a state spending plan.
29 min
July 03, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Jason deBruyn
Medicaid expansion is not the only major healthcare fight going on in state government these days. There is also a squabble over what to do about the state health plan.
29 min
July 03, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Jason deBruyn
Medicaid expansion is not the only major healthcare fight going on in state government these days. There is also a squabble over what to do about the state health plan.
29 min
June 28, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: The High Court Decides Two Major Opinions
Two major opinions were handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
23 min
June 28, 2019 WUNCPolitics Podcast: The High Court Decides Two Major Opinions
Two major opinions were handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. One ruled that federal judges do not have the authority to end extreme partisan gerrymandering, while the other stopped - for now - a citizenship question for the 2020 Census. Rob Schofield, of NC Policy Watch, and Beck Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, discuss the impact of those decisions, while also turning their attention toward the debate surrounding the state budget.
23 min

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The “WUNC Politics Podcast” is a free-flowing discussion of what we're hearing in the back hallways of the General Assembly and on the campaign trail across North Carolina.