SC budget deal gives homeowners smaller break, postpones decisions on local projects

By: Skylar Laird

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: July 23, 2026

Words: 1,418

Last Updated: 1 week, 4 days ago

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COLUMBIA — A weeks-long budget impasse broke Wednesday with a compromise that cuts a proposed tax break for seniors and approves none of the legislator-requested earmarks for local projects — at least, not yet.

Since July 1, the state has operated under stopgap funding that keeps agencies operating at the same funding levels as last fiscal year. The sticking point for budget negotiators has been whether to fund the Senate’s proposed property …

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