Leaders from both sides are pointing fingers after the special session crashed and burned after 15 days of failed negotiations, leaving the state with no certain path to solving the one billion dollar fiscal cliff. Republican Representative Cameron Henry says Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards was unable to rally his people.
Henry says the governor failed to communicate exactly what he wanted, or how large of a shortfall that needed to be made up…
But Edwards is placing the blame on House Speaker Taylor Barras.
The state legislature went home after spending 15 days in a special session and failing to find a solution for the one billion dollar fiscal cliff. Political analyst Clancy Dubos says legislators spent a lot of taxpayer money for very little return.
The session is expected to cost the state nearly a million dollars, 50-to-60-thousand dollars a day.
Despite early reports of House leadership and the governor having a framework for a deal, negotiations collapsed once the session started. DuBos says the same partisan divides that tanked the February special session still exist going forward.
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