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View submission: How are we feeling, Helena?
Press that cover the legislative session need to find out how the state legislature intends to deal with likely reductions in federal spending.
It is the primary purpose of the state legislature to pass a state budget. House Bill 1 funds the legislative session, HB 2 funds the state government. That has been the sequence since the very beginning.
How will we pay for our highways? How will we pay for nursing homes? How will we pay for environmental cleanup? How will our universities survive without federal research grants? Twenty percent of our public instruction money is federal? The list goes on and on.
Comment by brandideer at 31/01/2025 at 03:17 UTC
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Something tells me they don't super care about education or environmental cleanup.
Comment by busted_up_chiffarobe at 31/01/2025 at 03:56 UTC
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Easy, they want to bankrupt everything and sell it off for privatization.
First, though, maybe try selling off public lands to pay for debts and programs first so that those are out of the public's hands for good.