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State Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight spoke with News 14 Carolina’s Tim Boyum as lawmakers face a tough task with a $1.3 billion budget shortfall and a new two-year budget waiting to be written.

Basnight of Manteo, who has spent 26 years at the General Assembly and represents eight counties near or on the Outer Banks, will be in the thick of the budget battle.