By Geoff Pender
Apr 23, 2021 11:57 AM
Gov. Tate Reeves was frugal with his veto stamp this year, axing one bill and line-item vetoing four projects across the state the Legislature had funded.
Reeves gave no explanation for why he vetoed the specific projects, but one is in an area represented by a top lawmaker who challenged his veto authority in court last year.
Last year, by contrast, Reeves vetoed the bulk of the state’s public education budget, major criminal justice reforms and some of the Legislature’s spending of COVID-19 federal relief money.
His line-item vetoes of COVID-19 spending last year prompted House Speaker Philip Gunn and Speaker Pro-tem Jason White to sue their fellow Republican Reeves saying he overstepped his line-item veto authority. The state Supreme Court sided with Reeves in the case, a ruling that appeared to weaken legislative authority and strengthen gubernatorial authority.
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The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 216 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 coronavirus-related deaths Friday.
Since the virus hit the state in March 2020, a total of 308,737 cases and 7,139 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported.
According to a New York Times database Friday, at least 909 new coronavirus deaths and 74,312 new cases were reported in the U.S. Over the past week, there has been an average of 70,514 cases per day, an increase of 8% from the average two weeks earlier.