Winsome Earle-Sears Instagram – Today, the General Assembly passed and Governor @glennyoungkin signed the biennium budget. This budget is the product of a great deal of compromise – it doesn’t include any new taxes, removed Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative which would have added extreme costs to vehicles sold in Virginia, and set aside $75 million for lab schools for our children. Furthermore, this budget includes funding for transportation initiatives across the Commonwealth, such as I-81, and an additional 3% salary increase for teachers in both FY2025 and FY2026, in addition to the 12% wage increase that has been enacted since the start of our Administration. Thank you, General Assembly members, for coming together to work with the Governor to pass a budget that works for Virginia.