Gov. Nikki Haley slammed the state’s House of Representatives on Wednesday for a borrowing proposal she said would reverse years of fiscal restraint in South Carolina.
Haley specifically called out the chairman of the House’s budget-writing committee, Rep. Brian White, R-Anderson, for sponsoring a roughly half-billion dollar bond plan she said underwent little scrutiny.
“That is basically our call to action, it’s to go and remind the Chairman of Ways and Means this is South Carolina, this is not (Washington) D.C.,” Haley said. “To go let the members of the Ways and Means Committee know that we would appreciate it if they would reverse what just happened.”
White said he was disappointed Haley took to a press conference instead of discussing her concerns with him first, adding “it’s just politics, I guess.”
White also said it was “a little disingenuous” for her to say that the budget-writing process was done in the cover of darkness.
“It’s not like this was done secretly,” White said. “I didn’t write the budget alone. I didn’t write the bond bill alone.”
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