Editorial, includes “… So state officials received with considerable dismay a U.S. Treasury Department announcement that the bailout money is to be used ‘to help meet pandemic response needs’ … The Treasury emphasized that approved uses ‘would not include the payment of interest or principal on outstanding debt.’ Money is, of course, fungible. So it’s not beyond the means of state budgeteers and legislators to devote the bailout money to one approved purpose while redirecting state revenues intended to support various programs to debt payments. But budget gamesmanship is not without risk. …