From the President’s Office:
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., today signed Resolution CJN-25-10 into law while exercising presidential line item veto authority for the first time since the Navajo People approved it more than six months ago.
The new presidential authority saved the Navajo Nation $5,650,000 in spending. The spending would have tapped the Navajo Nation Department of Justice’s Contingency Management Fund.
In his first line item veto message to Navajo Nation Council Speaker Lawrence T. Morgan and the Council, the President said the line item veto of four components of the large spending bill was necessary to preserve the fund at a level essential to protect the Nation’s interests.
“There really are no monies,” the President said after signing the law. “They’ve been encumbered. That money from the contingency fund is already obligated. The only resolution I didn’t line out is money for the kids in spite of the fact that there is no money.”
The Contingency Management Fund is reserved for liabilities and claims owed by the Navajo Nation as determined by the Office of the Attorney General.
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