House and Senate budgets side-by-side

Here goes. I’ll be updating this as I go.

This shows how the Senate and the House come up with the cash to fill the $2.8 billion budget hole:

Question: How can they be counting on different amounts of federal money? The short answer is, these are their best guesses. Some of the money has been pledged, and other parts of the money are based on “conversations” they’ve had with federal legislators.

Here’s how the Senate and House would treat the higher education budgets:

Here are the differences in how much federal money each expects to get. Dollars are in millions.
Senate:
House:

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