JFAC's co-chair pushes back on Little's budget proposals
Tanner
BOISE — The newly composed Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee met for the first time Tuesday for an overview of the budget proposals laid out during Gov. Brad Little’s "Enduring Idaho” address Monday.
Little’s proposed budget features several large spending cuts and revenue transfers in order to meet Idaho’s constitutional requirement to not run a deficit, but members of JFAC from across the political aisle — including the body’s new co-chair Rep. Josh Tanner, R-Eagle — voiced concerns ranging from how state services would be impacted to whether a deficit could truly be avoided without further spending reductions.
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