Supreme Executive Power

By Kleinheider Posted on April 1, 2009 at 11:20 am

Via NRO:

In an important victory for the nation’s governors, the White House is acknowledging that state legislatures across the country can’t wrest control of $48.6 billion made available under the new federal stimulus law to help states cope with their budgets.

White House budget chief Peter Orszag says there is no provision in the stimulus law for state lawmakers to accept that money without approval by the governor. South Carolina’s Republican governor, Mark Sanford, has said he may decline more than $700 million in stimulus money because the White House won’t let him spend the money to pay down his state’s debt.

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