Gov. Bullock calls current Montana budget unacceptable

[TexasTowelie]

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock says the state budget as it stands halfway through the 2017 Legislature is “unacceptable.”

Speaking Friday morning at the Board of Regents meeting in Helena, the Democratic governor said the state spending plan would make significant cuts to higher education and services to seniors and children.

“From where I sit, it is unacceptable,” Bullock said.

Global prices for commodities, like oil and coal, may be down, which hurts states revenues. “But,” he said, “we don’t have to be in crisis.

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