As the sun set on the 2025 legislative session, by Thursday, it ended pretty much in stalemate between the Mississippi House of Representatives and the Senate.
That stall of the legislative process came mostly over disagreements over a local projects funding bill, a $200-to-$400-million bill to fund project requests all over Mississippi, and the state’s $7 billion budget, which died by a legislative deadline after lawmakers could not agree on a final budget proposal and died again when lawmakers couldn’t agree to revive the budget.
Those issues also appeared to arise from beefs developed during other debates such as income tax elimination, grocery sales tax cuts, gas tax increases and state retirement reforms. As a result, several other major priorities for the year died either once or repeatedly throughout the session…