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    Virginia's Democratic-led General Assembly has passed a compromise budget plan and Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed it. The plan signed Monday afternoon includes more funds for public schools, a pay bump for teachers and other government workers and no changes in Virginia’s tax policies. The compromise ended a long-running standoff between Youngkin and legislative leaders over the two-year spending plan. They agreed to use higher-than-expected revenues to help fund key priorities without implementing a hotly debated new sales tax on digital goods such as streaming services.

      A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual — spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall. The ad buy underscores the internal divisions the Republican Party is negotiating in the aftermath of McCarthy’s ouster. The rancor that has split the party on important House votes is playing out in some of this year’s primary elections, too. About $3.3 million has been spent on ads in the Virginia race.

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