{"id":72300,"date":"2021-06-30T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/watch-dunleavy-holds-budget-news-conference-2\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:30:00","slug":"watch-dunleavy-holds-budget-news-conference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/watch-dunleavy-holds-budget-news-conference-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Dunleavy holds budget news conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Mike Dunleavy is holding a news conference today to discuss the budget recently passed by the Alaska State Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., in the Atwood Building in Anchorage. Dunleavy will be joined by Office of Management and Budget Director Neil Steininger.<\/p>\n<p>Dunleavy, on Wednesday in a social media post, said he had signed the budget to prevent a partial government shutdown, and indicated he would share changes to the spending plan today. Previously, Dunleavy indicated he may make line-item vetoes to the budget passed by the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The budget for Fiscal Year 22, which began today, includes a partially funded Permanent Fund Dividend of $525, which may be a point of contention.<\/p>\n<p>Pinned to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GovDunleavy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Dunleavy&rsquo;s Facebook page<\/a> is a video in which he touts a proposed bill that would, if passed by lawmakers and voters, would make changes to how the PFD is calculated via constitutional amendment. <\/p>\n<p>A version of the budget, which passed the Senate, included a PFD of $2,300. That amount would line up Dunleavy&rsquo;s proposed 50-50 formula.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the news conference below: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ls_embed_1625175816\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/11909061\/events\/9742522\/player?width=640&#038;height=360&#038;enableInfoAndActivity=true&#038;defaultDrawer=&#038;autoPlay=true&#038;mute=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to be revealed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":72301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-72300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72300"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}