Ferguson calls for tapping reserve fund and climate law cash to fill WA budget hole
The Washington state Capitol on Nov. 11, 2024. (Photo by Bill Lucia/Washington State Standard) Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson made a splash Tuesday with his full-throated endorsement of taxing the earnings of millionaires. The surprise declaration from the first-term Democratic governor nearly drowned out his newly released plan to erase a multibillion-dollar shortfall in the current…