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.
“By putting off projected state costs for Medicaid, Turner said, “We have placed $4.8 billion on the Medicaid MasterCard.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7583632.html
That article has some good info in it.