FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — With time running short, lawmakers still haven't come to terms on a six-year, $10.6 billion proposal to fund road and bridge projects across Kentucky.

State Rep. Sannie Overly, D-Paris, said Monday that House and Senate lawmakers have been working to try to mesh competing Road Fund budget proposals.

"We're still pretty far apart," she said Monday. "Overall, the plan has to balance, and right now it's not balanced. If you try to accommodate the House priorities and the Senate priorities, it's just simply out of balance, and so something has to give, something has to be cut someplace. And I don't know, as we sit here right now, where that will be."

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