South Carolina Policy Council

08/21/2026

🚨 South Carolina lawmakers plan uphold budget vetoes and spend $350 million on earmarks.

08/21/2026

BREAKING: South Carolina State Representative Bill Taylor says the House is returning next Tuesday to vote on earmark legislation.

08/20/2026

‼️ The S.C. House should move to override Veto 12 on the $150M to Scout Motors and Veto 13 on allowing state agencies to spend money without legislative approval.

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08/19/2026

Governor McMaster has issued his budget vetoes. Should new corporate welfare funding and additional spending by state agencies require a fresh vote by the General Assembly?

On August 17, 2026, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster released his list of line-item vetoes in the budget approved by the General Assembly the previous week.

08/19/2026

It is not the duty of hardworking South Carolinians to pay for cost overruns (by force) at an electric vehicle factory.

08/18/2026

Either codify a transparent earmark request process for both chambers or continue to eliminate all earmarks every year. Either option is fine with us 👍

08/18/2026

✅ Quick fix to mend relationship: Expedite a bill that codifies earmark request transparency.

Pre-file it, pass it through both chambers, and have the new governor sign it in January before anything else happens.

At a minimum, each request should include the following information:

• The legislative sponsor’s name
• The date requested
• The amount requested
• A description of the project in question and how the funds will be spent
• The full name of the recipient entity

Requests should be posted to a designated location on the Statehouse website, preferably the budget page, within 24 hours, thereby creating a real-time earmark transparency dashboard for the public.

Currently there is a significant delay between when earmarks are requested and posted online, and the forms lack important details.

Finally, state law must ban earmarks from going to any organization whose governing board includes a legislator or a legislator’s immediate family member, and require that all private earmark recipients be properly registered with the Secretary of State’s Office.

08/12/2026

Come teach in South Carolina.

We are the first state in the nation to ban minimum grades for incomplete work.

08/11/2026

South Carolina lawmakers just voted for $378 million in funds with no recipient….

That money will need to find its way back to taxpayer wallets.

08/11/2026

🚨 The state budget has passed the South Carolina House and Senate and heads to the governor’s desk for signage!

The Ugly: We just funded $377,741,635 of unappropriated dollars for potential future earmark projects.

Let’s return that back to taxpayers and codify a transparent earmark request process next year!