The $2.4 billion shortfall that Governor Terry McAuliffe announced a few weeks ago is vanishing among positive economic news from his own Secretary of Finance Ric Brown. The news of increased tax revenues in Virginia is buttressed by corresponding parallel trends at the federal level,…
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Announcing his plans earlier this morning, Gov. McAuliffe says he’s using his executive powers to add just 25,000 people to Virginia’s Medicaid rolls. The key bit here is that this modest expansion is only to the existing Medicaid program, and is not an expansion of…
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Del. Tim Hugo (R-Fairfax) and Del. Jackson Miller (R-Prince William) earlier today delivered a letter to Governor McAuliffe demanding information about his administration’s involvement with the housing and care of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children. The Bull Elephant has obtained a copy of the letter, embedded below,…
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[UPDATE – 09/19/14: I retract the portion of this story that deals with Medicaid expansion. Subsequent events suggest the September reconvening of the special session was undertaken to provide the Governor an act of appropriation, not to make it politically more difficult for him to…
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The Times-Dispatch is reporting an interesting bit of back story to the budget drama that appears (for now) to have been resolved last night. According to the report, Speaker Howell had the staff of the Clerk of the House’s office working overtime to get a…
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Governor Terry McAuliffe won’t admit it, but his words and actions demonstrate acute awareness of the political and legal obstacles to his stated goal of expanding Medicaid administratively, without approval from the General Assembly. He has lost, but continues to play to the Democrat base.…
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After last week’s grassroots victory in slamming the door shut on the most obvious avenue for Virginia’s Governor to expand Medicaid on his own, all sides are taking stock of their next moves. For the best recap of last week’s events published so far, check…