RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican leaders tugged thousands of jobless North Carolina residents into their budget-cutting goal Wednesday with a plan that forestalls a potential state government shutdown and guarantees slashed spending in return for extending unemployment benefits.
Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue called the linkage "extortion."
House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, and Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said lawmakers will vote to change a formula that allows federal funds to continue flowing to the long-term unemployed. Otherwise, about 37,000 jobless workers who thought they had up to an additional 20 weeks of benefits will lose unemployment checks on Saturday.
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