What are you referring to when you say “do their job”?
Do you mean balancing the budget?
If so, I will point out that it is the Governor’s responsibility to propose the budget and to approve the budget
and he is given line-item-veto power to accomplish it.
Do you mean balancing the budget?
The same thing anybody who's been to school understands: not allocating more expenses than the expected tax revenues. The myriad ways this requirement can be circumvented can be found by any one who cares to look at the record of the last 15 years.
To state the obvious, if violation of this Constitutional control were not a routine event, we would not be $21Billion in the hole!
If so, I will point out that it is the Governor’s responsibility to propose the budget and to approve the budget and he is given line-item-veto power to accomplish it.
Although there might be another explanation, I will simply say, masterful job of dissimulation.
Yes, the Governor makes up the budget, but he can't pass it until the legislature sends it back. Further, he is required to make the budget based on input from all the recipients of budget funds, with absolutely no control or requirement that the numbers provided not be fraudulent.
To make matters worse, the legislature has contol of the form and content of the information provided to the Governor.
So, what's doing their job?
At the very least, sending the budget back to the governor in the time the Constitution requires. If that has actually happened, even once in the last 25 years, I am unaware of it.
I must confess ignorance of the extent or limitation of the line item veto, but judging from some "facts" provided in this thread so far (such as the "this decade" fraud) I will have to look for myself. Half truths are as effective as lies every time!