The slippery path: SC Legislature echoes Congress’ failures with budget impasse

By: Patrick Kelly

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: July 22, 2026

Words: 798

Last Updated: 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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“We’re not Washington, D.C.”

If you spend even a little time at the Statehouse, you’re guaranteed to hear someone say those words. The use of the phrase is a source of bicameral and bipartisan pride in Columbia — a claim, with merit, that our state government functions more effectively than the federal government.

While Congress has increasingly abandoned the real work of governance in favor of performative partisanship and politics, members of the Legislature have …

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