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Joint Fiscal Office walks Senate through 2027 budget tradeoffs; senators flag vacancy savings and fund shifts
Summary
The Joint Fiscal Office distributed an updated spreadsheet showing house vs senate budget choices and walked senators through major items: a roughly tens‑of‑millions gap, ADS billing changes that increase general fund costs, vacancy savings concerns, and multiple technical fund shifts and positions to review.
Emily Fern of the Joint Fiscal Office presented an updated budget spreadsheet to the Senate Appropriations Committee and walked members through house and senate columns, line items and technical changes.
"This is the sheet you went through yesterday with updates to get the double counts out, all that stuff," Fern said, distributing the materials and explaining senators would need to decide which house additions to accept or reject to resolve the bottom line.
Key items JFO highlighted included changes to the Agency of Digital Services (lines…
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