My referenced article said no rainy day fund money was used. Yours said it was. I don’t know which is correct. I’ll look it up.
But to be clear, I don’t deny that accounting tactics were used. Of course they’d have to be.
Either way, I thought it was significant that we cut spending for the first time in 50 years.
Agreed on Dewy.
Your article is correct. They used $3.2b of the $9.7b rain day fund.
I don’t know how much Medicaid and school funding was gimmicked out. That should be offset against the alleged spending cut because it is really spending in the next biennium. If you find anything on that, I’d be interested.
The budget could have been worse, but I had expected something better with such large R majorities. Caving to the TSA and then the illegal lobby on sanctuary cities are additional sore points.