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2026-2027 Budget Veto Response (opens the original)
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Earlier today, Governor McMaster issued a handful of vetos to the budget conference report passed by the legislature last week. To be blunt, we’re disappointed. Fourteen vetos were nowhere close to what should have been eliminated. The budget still contains millions in funding for drag shows, wasteful climate change research, and payoffs to out-of-state private equity firms. We look forward to an administration that will use the veto pen to protect the taxpayers of our state. Governor McMaster i
SC Freedom Caucus: 2026 Budget Process Raises Serious Constitutional Questions (opens the original)
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With the budget conference committee’s recent adoption of the final budget report, both chambers are now scheduled to return for a single legislative day to vote on this year’s annual budget. Historically, the conference committee includes pork barrel spending (also known as earmarks) in the final budget which the general assembly votes up or down on, but this year, local project earmarks were stripped from the product on which we will be voting. Instead, the conference committee opted for creat
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