The North Carolina Senate pushed forward Monday with new spending plans focused on several individual parts of state government, as a broader state budget deal remains out of reach amid political infighting.

But those new smaller spending plans — which contain proposed funding for storm relief aid, Medicaid and a new children's hospital , school safety improvements, the Fayetteville veterans' home, new development at Raleigh's Lenovo Center and subsidies for new, nonstop flights to Ireland — also face political opposition.

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As Republican senators were detailing the spending plans Monday in committee hearings, they acknowledged they had no deals with Republican members of the House in place. That was a stark contrast with a crime bill that also flew through the

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