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John Bel Edwards is working on one change to his budget plan

Source: nola.com - Feb 11, 2017

Gov. John Bel Edwards will be making one adjustment to his midyear budget deficit proposal, but is mostly still pleased with his plan five days after it was officially released to the public, he indicated. The governor and lawmakers will go into a special session Monday (Feb. 13) for nine days to try and close the state's $304 million midyear budget deficit.

The governor said he is going to lessen his proposed cut to graduate medical education -- which supports medical residents and students working in hospitals -- before his plan goes before the Louisiana Legislature next week.

"We are actually tweaking that part of it now," Edwards said in an interview Friday. "We're looking at that because we're not going to cut graduate medical education."

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