Gov. Beshear unveils plan to address budget shortfall

Beshear request to help cover budget shortfall meets pushback from GOP state officials • Kentucky Lantern

The Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, on February 27, 2024. Photo by Arden BarnesDemocratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he is planning a roughly 3% budget cut to “many agencies” in Kentucky’s executive branch in response to a revenue shortfall in the current fiscal year.  Beshear said during a Thursday press conference that his office and the office of Democratic Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman would also cut their budgets by about 3% to …

Gov. Beshear unveils plan to address budget shortfall

Beshear will outline his next budget in an address to the legislature on Jan. 7.

Kentucky to close $156M budget gap without cutting schools or Medicaid, Beshear says

Kentucky plans to close a $156 million budget shortfall while protecting schools, Medicaid, and public safety, with modest agency cuts and no layoffs.

Gov. Beshear Cuts Executive Branch Budget by Nearly $80 Million

FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) – Governor Andy Beshear is cutting the executive branch’s General Fund budget by nearly $80 million in an effort to address the commonwealth’s budgetary shortfall. The reduction represents a three percent cut to the executive branch’s enacted budget. According to the governor, improved economic activity across the state led the Consensus Forecasting Group to revise its earlier projection of Kentucky’s budget short…