President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency
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Governor Henry McMaster announced his vetoes to the state’s nearly $14 billion budget Wednesday.
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster delivered his vetoes for the 2021 2022 State Budget. According to the Governor, the 15 line item vetoes totaled $152.5 million. McMaster’s vetoes include subsections that contain 226 earmarked appropriations. The Governor said the 226 earmarked appropriations lacked the necessary transparency and accountability for state funding. Lawmakers want to use the earmarked…
Matt Perron COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Republican Gov. Nikki Haley has struck $41 million worth of spending from the Legislature’s $7.5 billion budget. Haley’s 51 vetoes announced Thursday include nearly $9 million of what she calls “old-fashioned pork,” such as $3 million for sports marketing and $100,000 for a Richland County swimming pool. Fifteen vetoes strike no money. She vetoed…
Beth Rousseau COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WOLO) _ The House has overridden Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto of a bill to send $40 million in aid to South Carolina farmers who lost their crops in last year’s massive floods. The 112-2 vote on Tuesday was a sharp rebuke to the Republican governor and well over the two-thirds margin needed. The bill now heads…
