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Gov. Mike Kehoe vetoes, restricts nearly $500 million from Missouri state budget

Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent

Gov. Mike Kehoe vetoed nearly $53 million from Missouri’s $50.7 billion state budget Tuesday, but his larger move was to freeze $441 million in spending — including dozens of lawmaker-backed earmarks — as state revenues lag projections and Missouri’s pandemic-era surplus dwindles.