June 17, 2020
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2021

Lawmakers considering novel budget approaches

With time short, interim budget under consideration

Shira Schoenberg ,

Commonwealth Magazine

Eileen McAnneny, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said the tight time frame – with only two weeks left before the June 30 end of the fiscal year – means it might make sense to bypass the multiple iterations that a budget typically goes through, as it goes from the governor to the House to the Senate. If there is a joint agreement, McAnneny said, “The biggest advantage is the speed at which they’d be able to enact it.”