Wednesday's Budget Deal: Is It Good For Louisiana?

State Senator John Milkovich talks with 101.7 / 710 KEEL's Robert J Wright and Erin McCarty about the last minute budget compromise reached between Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature to balance Louisiana's budget.

Getting support from all Democrats and the vast majority of Republican lawmakers, the Governor now has approval to take $99 million from the Louisiana's "rainy day fund", to go with cuts to most departments in state government to stave off what the Governor termed "a pending fiscal crisis."