This week could be the battle of the budgets as South Dakota legislators work to wrap up the final four days of the main run of the 2022 session.

The House and Senate are working on separate budgets and as Senator Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says, she’s not sure where that will go….

Hunhoff, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, says the differences are over spending authority of hundreds of millions of federal dollars…

Hunhoff says they need to have clear guidelines on onetime and ongoing spending….

The Joint Committee on Appropriations has not met in the last week to talk about the budget.