Belatedly, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says the special Medicaid funding provision for Nebraska in proposed Senate health legislation should be dropped. It’s not illegal as some Republican attorney generals have argued; just wrong, he says.

I expect McDaniel to be equally vigorous in opposing any special funding Arkansas members of Congress are able to insert in broader legislation for their folks back home.

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