On Tuesday, Controller John Chiang stopped paying legislators because they failed to pass a balanced budget. The decision was the first use of last November's "no budget, no pay" initiative, Proposition 25. But it raises a new set of questions about fact-checking budgets, and whether the state needs something akin to a budget cop.
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