Budgets

Girard Backs State Budget Deal

MANCHESTER, NH–JUNE 23, 2021–“Like many, I have watched with great interest the progress of the state budget and HB2, the ‘trailer bill.’ As I heard from many people about their concerns, I have sought to learn about its various provisions.

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Op-Ed: While There Is Plenty in This Budget to Like…

New Hampshire’s 2021 Budget should be defeated. While there is plenty in this budget to like (and no danger the Governor can afford to let any of those good things disappear) the budget that’s eventually signed should end the neutering of both the Governor’s Emergency Powers legislation and the Divisive Concepts legislation.

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NH State Budget Train Wreck

Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back – Senate Rolls Over for Sununu, Expands Governor’s Emergency Powers

In a joint House-Senate committee today, the Senate openly carried out the governor’s bidding by adding language to the budget that would make his emergency powers fundamentally stronger than they have been over the past 15 months while including only nominal checks from the Legislature that functionally will not work to limit the governor’s power.

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Budgets

Gov Sununu Vetoes The Democrat’s Tax and Spend Budget

The Democrats decided to pull the same financial stunt just before Bill O’Brien became speaker. Create a structural deficit by using “today’s surplus” to up the amounts spent in following years.  But current financial revenue performance is no indication of the future. Who knows if the State’s revenues will remain high especially if these bills, … Read more

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