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Virginia lawmakers, Gov. Youngkin agree to scrap budget proposals, plan to start fresh
RICHMOND — After months of heated budget negotiations, the legislature’s Democratic majority and Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin have agreed it’s best to scrap the current proposals and start from scratch.
“We’ve got work to do,” said Youngkin, speaking to reporters at the capitol Wednesday. “We will be calling a special session — we believe this is a good path forward for the commonwealth.”
General Assembly reconvenes Wednesday to take up Youngkin’s vetoes and budget amendments
The governor said there will be a vote on a new budget proposal on May 15.
Standing next to the governor, Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair Louise Lucas said the lines of communication between both sides were improving.
“Nothing helps this process more than everybody getting together and sitting around the table and talking about what can we all do to help Virginia,” said Lucas, D-Portsmouth. “I think we all may have different ways we thought we were going to get there, but I think now we are going to work towards something that will keep the temperature down a little bit.”
The legislature reconvened Wednesday to take up Youngkin’s unprecedented number of vetoes and budget amendments. The House of Delegates unanimously approved a motion declaring the 233 budget amendments “not specific and severable” and then voted to pass the budget by for the day. This allows lawmakers to start over on a new budget plan.
Del. Luke Torian, D-Dumfries, said the group of budget conferees will start meeting today.
Youngkin had characterized his amended spending plan as a “common ground budget” that stripped out any tax increases or decreases. But Democrats argued the governor’s unprecedented number of amendments made it difficult to compromise.
“The governor has made it very difficult to consider his amendments when he’s attempting to adjust our revenues by a billion dollars in a series of 233 amendments; that’s just not something the legislature has ever seen before,” Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Mount Vernon, previously told The Virginian-Pilot.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, legislators got to work taking up amendments the governor made to specific legislation.
The Senate rejected the governor’s lengthy amendments to a controversial bill that would legalize skill games in a 34-6 vote.
Sen. Aaron Rouse, D-Virginia Beach, was critical of the amendments, and pointed out the parameters limiting operation of skill games near schools, daycare centers and casinos largely banned the devices in the state.
“The 35-mile radius around casinos wipes out the whole Hampton Roads region,” Rouse said.
Rouse also sought to vote on adoption of the original form of the bill, but a vote was temporarily held off.
Katie King, katie.king@virginiamedia.com
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FAIRFAX, Va. (7News) — Virginia State Police have identified the man who was shot and killed by a trooper after a crash ended in a stabbing attack on Interstate 495 Sunday afternoon.
Jared Llamado, 32, of McLean, died at the hospital on Sunday after he was shot.
RELATED | 2 dead, dog killed after stabbing spree, trooper shooting on I-495 in Fairfax County
Investigators said Llamado was confronted by the trooper who opened fire around 1:17 p.m. The trooper was responding to a report of a road rage incident and found Llamado with a knife, according to a news release.
Four stabbing victims, all women, were also found at the scene, along with a dog that was also stabbed.
Michelle Adams, 39, died from her injuries. The dog also did not survive. The three other women were all taken to the hospital with serious injuries, according to VSP. 7News is not identifying the surviving victims.
Investigators said the stabbings stemmed from a crash in the southbound lanes of I-495.
The trooper who opened fire was not hurt and is on leave pending the outcome of the investigation into the use of force.
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Investigators said they do not believe the attack is connected to terrorism.
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Two dead after I-495 road rage incident leads to stabbing, Virginia State Police shooting – WTOP News
A road rage incident led to a shooting involving the Virginia State Police on Sunday on Interstate 495. Four individuals were also stabbed.
Two people are dead Sunday in Annandale, Virginia, after a road rage incident led to a shooting involving Virginia State Police on Interstate 495.
A release issued by the Virginia State Police said a trooper fatally shot a man after responding to a report of a road rage incident on the southbound lanes of I-495 just before 1:30 p.m. at exit 52, near the Little River Turnpike.
The man, transferred to a hospital with serious injuries, has been pronounced dead. VSP said the trooper shot in self-defense after the man confronted him with a knife.
The trooper did not suffer any injuries during the altercation.
Officials found four stabbing victims at the scene, but only identified a 39-year-old woman and a dog. Both the woman and the dog died.
Early findings suggest the stabbings took place after a crash on the Capital Beltway. The crash remains under investigation.
The VSP’s release comes after the main lanes of the Capital Beltway Outer Loop, before Little River Turnpike, were closed to traffic for several hours, only recently opening the express lanes. Main lanes between Arlington Boulevard and the Little River Turnpike remain closed.
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