South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced 21 budget vetoes totaling nearly $2.3 million from the Palmetto State's fiscal 2024-25 budget.
The budget includes more than 500 earmarks totaling $424.7 million.
South Carolina's $40.2 billion spending plan is built around $12.4 billion in general funds, $13.6 billion in federal funds and $14.1 billion in other funds.
"After decades of overriding the gubernatorial vetoes of innocuous sounding appropriation titles inside of which the earmarks were hidden, the leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives now disclose the sponsors and recipients of earmarked appropriations, as well as the activity, function, or project for which each earmark is intended," McMaster wrote in his veto message.
The state's budget increases teacher salaries by $4,500, making the new minimum starting teacher salary $47,000.
Lawmakers also allocated $2 million to add school resource officers in the 175 schools without an assigned officer.
Lawmakers also included $200 million for emergency bridge replacement and repairs, lower than the $500 million McMaster's executive budget proposed.
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