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Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy said that the county’s immediate needs would be $300,000 worth of state payments for schools and incidentals.
Warner followed his tax plan with a new $59 billion two-year budget.
Warner’s Democrats have a 61 to 37 advantage in the Senate, but in the House of Delegates he faces a Republican majority with a strong anti-tax contingent.
State lawmakers have gathered in Richmond in hopes of sorting it all out in the next two
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