Governor proposes ‘no-growth’ budget plan for fiscal 2021 amid emergency

By , Daily Memphian Updated: March 18, 2020 5:47 PM CT | Published: March 18, 2020 12:27 PM CT

Gov. Bill Lee introduced a “no-growth” budget for the next fiscal year, reducing a 3.1% revenue growth projection to zero and eliminating dozens of spending proposals while spending hundreds of millions to respond to the COVID-19 emergency.

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Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.


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