Indiana lawmakers will spend the last few days of the 2025 session looking for ways to close a $2.4 billion budget shortfall and everything, they say, is on the table, for the most part.
Lawmakers learned of the shortfall this week.
Options to close the gap run the gambit from raising cigarette and alcohol taxes, putting scheduled income tax cuts on hold, and although unlikely, legalizing marijuana.
Republican lawmakers will spend the weekend looking for ways to close the gap.
You can hear the Legislative leaders above.
You can also hear Joe Elsener of Safe and Regulated, a marijuana legalization group, advocate for legalizing marijuana as way to raise tax revenue.
