Budget offers counties relief: The Arizona Legislature’s budget for next year will require counties to fork over about $32 million, which is $20 million less than local officials feared they would have to contribute.

Call him “Rude” Ruben Gallego if you’d like, but don’t call him a quitter. Tell him he should say he’s sorry, but don’t ask him to say “uncle.” Last week, as House Speaker Paul Ryan was making a statement about the Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, Democratic Rep. Gallego could be heard shouting, “Where’s the score?”

By this Gallego meant the Congressional Budget Office score, which the Republican-controlled House did not wait to receive before passing the bill.

The CBO is the nonpartisan government agency that gauges how much a piece of legislation could cost and the impact it could have on Americans.

For example, how many men, women and children might lose health-insurance coverage under the bill? (In its first version, that number was 24 million.)

The CBO evaluation might also shed light on the effects the bill might have on regular citizens. What would it mean if states are permitted to scale back benefits insurers have to cover under “Obamacare”? What will it mean to let states permit insurance companies to increase premiums — greatly — to people with pre-existing conditions? It goes on.

To get the so-call American Health Care Act passed, Ryan had to make deals. None of them occurred out in the open.

So, Gallego shouted. It wasn’t like that congressman in 2009 shouting “You lie!” at President Barack Obama during a televised speech. Gallego was asking a question. It’s a question every member of Congress should be asking.

Politics operated with a sense of decorum before Donald Trump ran for president. He changed that.

Rude is the new rule. And if Trump’s victory proves anything, it’s that Americans don’t mind. In fact, they relish it.

When I was a kid, an old fighter trying to teach neighborhood boys proper boxing technique told us, again and again, that if we ever got into a tussle outside of the ring we shouldn’t expect the other guy to abide by Marquess of Queensberry rules. Gallego understands this. In an interview with CNN, he said, “This is a new time in politics where people are just blatantly lying and, essentially, producing policies that are going to kill people. So, I think the old time of civility needs to go until we actually go back to the rules. But right now we’re about to kick 24-million people off of health insurance … Somebody yelling for accountability and asking for CBO is not the thing we should really be worried about.” He’s right. Although, some might consider his indignant rhetoric and his vehemence to be extreme.

That’s odd. After all, it was Arizona’s greatest statesman, a Republican, who said that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.

And moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.