Legislative budget leader sets stage for showdown with Little over spending

Legislative budget leader sets stage for showdown with Little over spending

An Eagle legislator who cochairs the Legislature’s budget committee has pushed back hard on the budget Gov. Brad Little proposed in his State of the State address.Rep. Josh Tanner replaced Wendy Horman of Idaho Falls as the cochair of the powerful Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee after Horman left the Legislature on Jan. 5 to work for President Donald Trump’s administration. In one of his first public acts in the role, Tanner challenge…