Post by Logan on Jul 5, 2016 4:24:22 GMT -6
JACKSON — When Democrats made the Mississippi House of Representatives stay an extra day last week, it was time to play the blame game.
The question was who was at fault for the $33,000 that it cost for the House to meet Wednesday.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant called lawmakers back to Jackson so they could vote to let him withdraw more than the cap of $50 million from the state's rainy day fund to cover a deficit in the 2016 budget year, which ended Thursday. The Republican leadership's solution was simple — let Bryant pull as much money as he needed from the $349 million rainy day fund, secure that it would be illegal for Bryant to spend on items lawmakers hadn't already authorized.
Republicans clearly wanted to get out of town in one day, in part because Democrats were using every minute to bash the GOP for not only 2016's budget problems, but the likelihood that 2017's budget problems will be worse.
Read more: www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/03/democrats-may-have-wait-make-hay-over-budget/86663622/
The question was who was at fault for the $33,000 that it cost for the House to meet Wednesday.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant called lawmakers back to Jackson so they could vote to let him withdraw more than the cap of $50 million from the state's rainy day fund to cover a deficit in the 2016 budget year, which ended Thursday. The Republican leadership's solution was simple — let Bryant pull as much money as he needed from the $349 million rainy day fund, secure that it would be illegal for Bryant to spend on items lawmakers hadn't already authorized.
Republicans clearly wanted to get out of town in one day, in part because Democrats were using every minute to bash the GOP for not only 2016's budget problems, but the likelihood that 2017's budget problems will be worse.
Read more: www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/03/democrats-may-have-wait-make-hay-over-budget/86663622/