As Governor Andy Beshear discussed the storms today.

He again denounced the Republican backed portion of the budget bill that he says would limit the state's ability to deal quickly with a weather disaster.

The governor says the budget would cap the executive branch's response to emergencies at $25 million per fiscal year.

He says that's not enough money and the delay in authorizing more money could be devastating.

The current pending state budget for the very first time in our history would limit the amount an executive branch can spend or expend in response to a natural disaster and not a limitation after any individual one, but over the course of a year.

To give you an example, we would have exceeded the cap that they are setting in the first 3 to 4 months of this fiscal year.

In just 3 to 4 months, we'd be out of money that we're allowed to spend to respond to a natural disaster.

Now, some say that there's another pot that's sitting out there we can use now that under the budget can only go towards FEMA matches.

FEMA matches can be a year or two or three years later.

You can't use them for the immediate emergency response.

And that means we've now had at least two major weather events, again, the tornadoes and tremble in Carroll County and in the damage in Gallatin County, as well as this storm that's impacted so many counties that we would have been over the amount and it would have taken either a special session or calling people back in the veto period for us to simply respond and think about how long that takes and how long a bill takes to pass.

Those are precious moments, minutes, hours and days where we have to be responding immediately.

The governor says he will line item veto that part of the budget bill.

Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers and would have the opportunity to override the veto when they reconvene for two days later this month.