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Youngkin cuts $900 million from the budget amendments package, including medical school expansion in Roanoke
Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued $900 million in line-item vetoes Friday to the budget amendments package passed by the General Assembly in February. Those cuts are primarily to higher education capital projects, including expansions of the Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine and Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke and the Institute for Advancing Learning and Research in Danville. Youngkin attributed the cuts, higher than previously anticipated, to what he called “short-term risks” due to cuts, shake-ups and uncertainty at the federal level, though he did not use those terms, and the need to create more of a cushion to account for unknowns.