Nikki Haley Looks Forward to Budget Battle

When Nikki Haley was 13, she balanced the books for her parents’ small business. Now, as governor-elect, she faces a slightly more daunting task: plugging a billion-dollar hole in the state’s budget. But Haley says she looks forward to the challenge. “I love the opportunity that brings” to bring about limited government, she said during a meeting in THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s offices this afternoon. “I want to go at every agency start at zero and say, ‘What do we have to have?'”