RICHMOND — Virginia’s House of Delegates voted unanimously Friday to repeal restrictions recently imposed on a college tuition program for military families, but Senate leaders do not intend to take the bill up when that chamber meets Monday, saying they want to limit any repeal to one year.
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No. 8 Virginia Drops Series Opener at Pitt 9-4, Loses Fifth Straight
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Simply a few weeks in the past, Virginia baseball was seemingly setting a brand new program report in each recreation and shot as much as a No. 3 nationwide rating. Now, the Cavaliers have misplaced 5 video games in a row for the primary time since 2003, the newest of which was a sloppy 9-4 loss within the sequence opener at Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon.
Nate Savino began robust on the mound for the Cavaliers, retiring seven of the primary eight batters he confronted, however he had just some expensive pitches get away from him within the third inning. Nick Giamarusti received on board with a single after which Tatem Levins delivered a two-run residence run with two outs to place the Panthers on prime.
Pittsburgh starter Matt Gilbertson gave up only one hit via the primary three innings, however Virginia put some strain on him within the fourth, as Alex Tappen and Devin Ortiz hit back-to-back doubles to get the Cavaliers on the board.
Within the backside of the fifth, Ethan Anderson hit a double and moved to 3rd on a Max Cotier single earlier than coming residence on a sacrifice fly from Griff O’Ferrall to tie the sport.
The two-2 tie lasted all of 1 inning, because the Panthers blew the sport large open with a six-run sixth inning.
Nate Savino labored into the sixth having given up solely two earned runs on three hits to that time. Within the sixth, the Panthers loaded the bases on a stroll, a UVA error, and a single. Savino then walked in a run to provide Pitt the lead, earlier than putting out the following batter for the primary out of the inning.
Savino was lifted for Jay Woolfolk, who struck out Nick Giamarusti for the second out. The inning may have come to an finish with the following batter, as Woolfolk received Jeffrey Wehler to pop as much as proper discipline, however Casey Saucke dedicated an error, permitting three unearned runs to attain. Tatem Levins then got here up and delivered an RBI single to attain Wehler. Sky Duff doubled after which Woolfolk threw a wild pitch that brough residence Levins. When Woolfolk lastly received the third out on a pop-out, Pittsburgh had constructed an 8-2 lead.
The Panthers stored it going within the seventh, as Tommy Tavarez hit a house run to left middle off of Avery Mabe to make it 9-2.
Virginia received some offense going within the eighth, as a pair of hits from O’Ferrall and Jake Gelof arrange runs for the Cavaliers as O’Ferrall scored on a wild pitch and Gelof got here residence on a sacrifice fly from Alex Tappen. However, it was a lot too little and much too late for Virginia.
Matt Gilbertson was distinctive in limiting the manufacturing of the UVA bats, giving up simply 4 earned runs on eight hits with eight strike outs in eight innings of labor.
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Baron Stuart entered the sport for Pitt within the ninth and closed out the 9-4 win for the Panthers, who’ve now received six of their final seven video games.
Virginia drops to 26-8 and 9-7 in ACC play. After a sizzling begin that noticed UVA turn into an undisputed prime three-team in faculty baseball via the primary 30 video games, the Cavaliers fallen right into a severe hunch and are in determined want of a tough reset. UVA will look to get the practice again on the rails in recreation 2 on Saturday at 3pm.
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Youngkin looks to unify GOP at massive Trump rally: ‘Virginia is in play’ – Washington Examiner
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) joined former President Donald Trump for a massive rally in Virginia as the vice presidential hopeful makes a bid to flip his state red this November.
“It is time to elect strength back into the White House,” the Virginia governor proclaimed to thousands of enthusiastic rally attendees as he introduced the president. “Let’s join together and welcome the next president of the United States, Donald J. Trump!”
Trump, freshly victorious from a debate deemed a disaster for his opponent President Joe Biden, beamed as Youngkin doled out glowing words for his former rival.
“Mr. President, this is the best Trump rally that you’ve ever had, and you’re doing it in Virginia,” Youngkin told the presumptive GOP nominee Friday. “And yes, on behalf of 8.7 million Virginians, Mr. President, we are going to go to work and get you back in the White House!”
Massive crowds roared as the two shook hands, cementing a show of goodwill over a past mired in conflict.
“He’s got the policies that made America great,” Trump said of Youngkin, widely rumored to be on the vice presidential short list. “We’re proud of him. He’s done a great job.”
The joint appearance comes as the GOP convention looms. Trump is expected to announce his running mate before then.
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In 2020, Biden claimed Virginia by a solid 10%. Recent polls showing the president in a dead heat with Trump has shocked the GOP into action to capitalize on Republican gains. While Trump and Youngkin have had a fractured relationship, with Youngkin toying with mounting a presidential challenge to Trump and declining to speak at multiple rallies, their joint appearance is intended to signal to Virginians that a unified GOP could flip the state red this November.
As the Virginia governor told Fox News just hours before the rally, “The president coming to Virginia today … is reflective of the fact that Virginia is in play.”
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Virginia House votes to repeal restrictions on military tuition program
Created in 1930 to aid the families of World War I veterans, the program has expanded over the years to include out-of-state residents, graduate students and relatives of service members with non-combat-related injuries. The price tag has risen exponentially in recent years, from $12 million in 2019 to more than $65 million last year. Universities have borne the cost or passed it to other students.
Amid warnings that the program was unsustainable, legislators and Youngkin agreed to new restrictions, which require participants to tap federal aid, such as Pell Grants, before accessing the state program, and limit eligibility to Virginia residents pursuing undergraduate degrees.
They also require military families to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which uses a formula to calculate how much families can afford to pay for higher education. The wealthiest participants would pay a portion of the “expected family contribution,” expected to be capped at about $3,750 a year.
Current participants were grandfathered in, as was anyone who applied to college before May 15 under the budget language, which also provides $20 million to colleges and universities to offset waiver costs.
Those changes drew swift and vocal pushback from military families, leading Youngkin and the Democrats who lead the House and Senate to promise fixes. But they have not been on the same page about just what to do.
Youngkin and the House have favored fully repealing the restrictions until the issue can be studied, while Senate leaders have leaned toward more limited tinkering.
The House gathered for about an hour Friday to pass a bill to repeal the changes and provide $20 million a year for the next two fiscal years to cover some of the cost.
“It’s often been said if you find yourself in a hole you don’t want to be in, stop digging. Mr. Speaker, today I’m glad that we stopped digging,” Del. Mike A. Cherry (R-Colonial Heights) said on the floor ahead of the vote, praising Democratic and Republican leaders who’d pledged to “not weaponize” the issue.
But Senate Majority Leader Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax) said that the measure will not move forward in the Senate, which on Monday will meet for a second time to try to advance its own fix.
“It will not be considered,” he said.
Senate leaders are backing a new bill to postpone the restrictions until July 1, 2025, provide $65 million over the next 12 months to cover the cost, and require the state’s Joint Legislative and Audit Review Commission to review the program and make recommendations by Sept. 1.
“We’re willing to repeal the new restrictions for one year … and use the surplus to take the burden off other students who are currently funding the program,” Surovell said.
House Speaker Don L. Scott Jr. (D-Portsmouth) said he was confident the two sides will eventually work out their differences.
“Regardless of what happens on Monday, we’re very, very close in concept,” Scott said. “I think everybody recognizes that the way the program is designed now, it can’t go on like that. But we want to make sure that we get it right.”
Scott said he would support means-testing and other restrictions once the issue has been fully studied.
“I’m a disabled veteran as well. I can afford to pay for my daughter’s tuition,” he said. “So I think we need to do some means-testing. We need to get some residency requirements. I think we need to take a look at it and see what’s doable.”
The Senate initially met June 18, when Democratic leaders hoped to pass a bill to lift the Pell Grant and FAFSA requirements for relatives of veterans killed in the line of duty or disabled in combat, but not those with non-combat disabilities. They met for more than five hours that day but did not advance the legislation.
Youngkin praised the House’s action Friday and leaned on the Senate to fall in line with that plan.
“Our veterans, first responders, and their families have spoken, and we have heard them,” he said in a written statement. “Now it is time for the Senate to pass the bill on Monday, so I can sign it immediately. … If the Senate Democrat Leadership does not support a repeal of the language, they are holding our veterans, first responders, and their families, hostage.”
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