AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) - Maine’s Annual Revenue Forecast was released on Monday.

The report tells state lawmakers how much money is available for both new and existing programs.

The Revenue Forecast Committee is expecting that state funding will trend upward in the next few years.

This comes as the legislature passed several new taxes or tax increases in the spring.

We have reported extensively about the legislature’s attempts to pass multiple budgets in the last year, with a failed supplemental budget , a partisan biennial budget , and a partisan supplemental budget , and it looks like the funding fight will continue.

“The Democrats will try to spend it, and the Republicans are going to be fighting to give relief to Maine people so that they can live more affordable lives,” Hou

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