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There has been a lot of flip-flopping and waffling going on in government.
President Trump groused about, panned, and then finally signed a second stimulus package on Sunday, Dec. 27. Then Gov. Ige, who previously decided to furlough public employees, put the furloughs on hold on Dec. 23 (after Congress passed the stimulus package but before President Trump signed it) knowing full well that there was nothing in the package with any designated funding for state and local governments. The furloughs won’t start until some unspecified time in the future. Or maybe the idea of furloughs will be scrapped.
In the meantime, there is a very real concern about balancing the state budget. There is a projected shortfall of $1.4 billion over each of the next four years. The furloughs, representing roughly 10 percent of state payroll costs, were to save $300 million, or $0.3 billion, a year.