The federal tax-cut bill the U.S.
Congress passed yesterday will send Massachusetts $550 million
during the next two years, the Boston Globe said, citing no one.
Most of the money will become available July 1 and will help Massachusetts deal with a budget deficit of $3 billion, the paper
said.
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The money is earmarked for Massachusetts’s Medicaid program,
the joint state-federal health program that dropped 36,000 adults
from coverage on April 1, and may also be used to fund the state’s
prescription drug program for older and disabled people, the paper
said.
State lawmakers will have some discretion in how to spend the
money, the Globe said. Governor Mitt Romney said the money should
be used to fund the drug program and minimize use of the emergency
state funds to fill the budget gap, the paper said.
“We should not in any way use this one-time infusion from
the federal government, in an emergency setting, to put in place
permanent increases in spending,” he said at a news conference,
according to the Globe.
Bloomberg News
