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Rocky Mountain High: Ron DeSantis heads to Idaho, Montana to push Balanced Budget Amendment

He is pushing for a Balanced Budget on the federal level.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is headed to Idaho and Montana Monday, where he will hold press conferences with Governors Brad Little and Greg Gianforte.
The press advisory from the Governor’s Office omitted details about why he’s going. However, Idaho News 6 reports that the Florida Governor will be pushing for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as part of the Balanced Budget Campaign supported by all Republican Governors.
KTXB reports he will be in Idaho for a so-called “informal rally aimed at state legislators” between 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. The press conference in Idaho is slated for 9:30 a.m Mountain Time, while the Montana event (presumably covering the same topic) is scheduled for 1:45 MT.
The Governor has made news involving both states in the last year.
DeSantis found a way to disparage Idaho’s recent economic growth, arguing that its lower population than Florida made it impossible to truly equate what’s happened in the two states.
At a press conference, the Governor was discussing Florida having the second-best performance in the “economy,” which has grown by more than 30% since he has been in office. He said Florida led “sizable states,” but less-populated “Idaho may be a little bit more than us.”
But DeSantis dissed the comparison between the states.
“Idaho has less people than Polk County does, so it’s a little bit different comparison when you’re talking, and I love Idaho, but it’s just not the same as comparing to a mature economy,” he said at Winter Haven’s Central Florida Intermodal Logistics Center.
While Gov. DeSantis hasn’t held forth about Montana’s economy, he was active in working to get U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy elected last year.
Meanwhile, First Lady Casey DeSantis vacationed in the state last July. She ran a 5K according to a published report.

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Miley Cyrus Says Disney Stopped Her From Singing 'Hannah Montana' Songs, 'Not Like I Wanted To'

Disney prevented Miley Cyrus from performing songs from Hannah Montana after the show ended in 2011. But she said in a new interview with The Ringer podcast, “It’s not like I wanted to.” She explained: “Performing ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’ wouldn’t have really made sense,” she said.
The TV series, which propelled Cyrus to stardom as a pop star who hid her true identity from fans so she could live a normal life, ran from 2006 to 2011. During that time, five Hannah Montana soundtrack albums came out, as well as one live record and two remix albums. She also released three solo albums on Disney’s Hollywood label* before switching to RCA and releasing Bangerz, home to “We Can’t Stop” and “Wrecking Ball,” in 2013. Around that time, she sexualized her performances more, twerking with Robin Thicke at the 2013 VMAs. So, apparently, Disney decided she could enjoy the best of only one world.
Even though Cyrus didn’t want to sing her Disney-era songs, she felt ambivalent about the injunction. “It was still sad knowing those songs have my voice, my face, and I wasn’t allowed to sing them,” she said.
As of last year, though, both worlds have opened back up to Cyrus. She was named a Disney Legend in a 2024 ceremony, where she apologized to the Mouse in Chief. “I definitely wasn’t created in a lab, and if I was, there must’ve been a bug in the system which caused me to malfunction somewhere between the years of 2013 and ’16,” she said at the time, according to Deadline. “Sorry, Mickey.”
So now, the singer, who is now 32, told The Ringer, it could be back on for her Hannah Montana persona (if she wanted to go that way): “After being inducted as a Disney Legend, I was given permission to perform those songs in the future, which is pretty cool,” she said.
* The Disney ban must not have applied to the Hollywood albums, though, since “Party in the U.S.A.,” off Cyrus’ The Time of Our Lives EP in 2009, is the song Cyrus has performed live the most times in her life, as recent as 2022.
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Montana Lottery Lucky For Life, Big Sky Bonus results for June 5, 2025
The Montana Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at June 5, 2025, results for each game:
Winning Lucky For Life numbers from June 5 drawing
01-14-19-28-41, Lucky Ball: 07
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Winning Big Sky Bonus numbers from June 5 drawing
05-09-18-22, Bonus: 02
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When are the Montana Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 8:59 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 9 p.m. MT on Tuesday and Friday.
- Lucky For Life: 8:38 p.m. MT daily.
- Lotto America: 9 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Big Sky Bonus: 7:30 p.m. MT daily.
- Powerball Double Play: 8:59 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Montana Cash: 8 p.m. MT on Wednesday and Saturday.
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