A compromise state budget worked out by Democrats and Senate Republicans has received all but final approval in the House and Senate. The Senate unanimously approved the budget and the House endorsed the measure 92 to 54, nine vote short needed for final enactment.
House Speaker Sara Gideon spoke with members of the press this afternoon.
“The Governor indicated that he will still veto a bill that is not to his liking and hold it, hold his veto for ten days. And keep the government in shutdown mode,” says Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon. “Forcing us into a shutdown, and then threatening to continue to hold us in a shutdown and announcing that I would leave the state. It is the biggest abdication of responsibility that I have ever witnessed and every person in this state should be absolutely outraged by it.”
The budget needs a two-thirds vote in both branches of the legislature for final approval. House is expected to vote late afternoon or early evening.
