NH House Leader Responds to Budget Becoming Law at Midnight

House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt (R-Salem) offered the following statements in response to the state budget becoming law at midnight and Governor Lynch’s criticism of the budget, which he refused to veto.

By his criticism, Governor Lynch has shown his true colors.  He’s a big spending, high taxing partisan who only pays lip service to fiscal responsibility.  However, he does have a veto pen, and my advice to him is this: ‘Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way.’ 

The Governor was not involved at all after his discredited budget was pushed aside for one that lives within our means, yet now he wants to criticize from afar. 

He is simply pushing the Democrats’ playbook of tax, spend and repeat.