The state controller of California is docking all 120 members of the California legislature $400 a day under a new law requiring them to forfeit pay for every day that a budget is late, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Democrats, who control both the Assembly and the Senate, did pass a budget on the June 15 deadline, but did so without input from Republicans or Gov. Jerry Brown, who quickly vetoed it.
John Chiang, a Democrat, calls the final budget package "miscalculated, miscounted or unfinished," and says he is required to seize the lawmaker's pay because, in his analysis, it spends $1.85 billion more than it collects in taxes and fees.
"The numbers simply did not add up," said Chiang, the Times reports.
Last fall, voters passed a law last fall requiring that legislators forfeit pay for every day that a budget is late, although it does not specifically require the budget be balanced.
Visitors to Chiang's official Facebook page have praised his move and called for him to run for governor.
Indignant Democratic lawmakers call Chiang's moved an illegal power grab, the Times reports.
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