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Tensions in the legislature’s budget setting committee have started to boil over, with major appropriations like public education and health and welfare still unsettled. On the show this week, we discuss the winding road ahead with Rep. Wendy Horman and Sen. Scott Grow, the co-chairs of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, and Democratic committee member Sen. Melissa Wintrow outlines her concerns with this year’s process.

Idaho Reports airs Friday at 8 p.m. on Idaho Public Television

The fight over the WWAMI medical education program has left the University of Idaho blindsided, and scrambling. Behind the scenes, the university has been working in defensive damage control. We'll have more with Kevin Richert in this week's show.

Undocumented people are not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare in Idaho. However, all low-income people are eligible for medical care such as crisis counseling, prenatal care, postnatal care, immunizations and public health treatment of communicable diseases. 

Although the tax revenue from utilities would no longer be collected as property taxes, the new revenue would be sent to local taxing districts to use as if it was property tax money.

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U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, blocked a bill that would have prevented the president from imposing tariffs without Congressional consent on countries that are allies of the United States, calling the proposal “too blunt of an instrument when nuance is called for.”

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