By Jessica Holdman| Reporter
Happy Saturday South Carolina
“For Lindsey, I want it to happen.” - President Donald Trump, urging supporters in Myrtle Beach to vote for Sen. Darline Graham on Aug. 25 as a tribute to her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.
President Donald Trump talks to a crowd at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, at a rally supporting U.S. Sen. Darline Graham. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
By Jessica Holdman
President Donald Trump asked thousands of supporters gathered Friday in Myrtle Beach to vote for U.S. Sen. Darline Graham as a tribute to her late brother. Graham faces U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s runoff to replace her brother, Lindsey Graham, as the GOP’s Senate nominee for the next six-year term. Trump told attendees to pretend he’s on the ballot.
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The South Carolina Statehouse dome is seen on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, in Columbia, framed by palm tree fronds. (Photo by Travis Bell/STATEHOUSE CAROLINA)
By Seanna Adcox
A week after negotiations publicly blew up, the Legislature’s chief budget writers have reached a deal on spending $350 million on local projects. An agreement that shaves $100 million from the House’s list of legislator-sponsored projects and changes the process for future budgets means most of this year’s proposed earmarks — or community investments, as legislators call them — will be at least partially funded, according to the chambers’ budget chairmen.
PLUS, MORE BUDGET AND BUSINESS HEADLINES THIS WEEK
A University of South Carolina student studies Monday, April 29, 2024, on the historic Horseshoe, the original part of campus one block from the Statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina. (File photo by Travis Bell/STATEHOUSE CAROLINA/Special to the SC Daily Gazette)
By Jessica Holdman
The University of South Carolina is making plans for a nuclear workforce training center within its engineering school, as well as a new, $60 million Reserve Officers’ Training Corps center to be named in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.
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