John Bel Edwards to make case for special legislative session on budget
Gov. John Bel Edwards is expected to make his case for calling a special legislative session to close Louisiana's $303 million budget gap during a meeting with the Legislature's budget committees Friday morning (Jan. 27). The governor will be responding directly to recent statements by House Republicans who have argued that a special session isn't necessary to erase the deficit.
The governor won't be providing a line-by-line plan for solving the problem, as some legislators expected, but more of a broad vision for what he thinks needs to be done. However, administration officials said they doubt Edwards will propose:
*Any revenue-raising measures, such as new taxes, to close the budget gap
*Cutting spending in primary and secondary education in the middle of the fiscal year.
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