{"id":630747,"date":"2025-09-05T17:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/?p=630747"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:05:33","slug":"eyeing-federal-cuts-vermont-house-budget-writers-brace-for-tough-spending-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/09\/05\/eyeing-federal-cuts-vermont-house-budget-writers-brace-for-tough-spending-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyeing federal cuts, Vermont House budget-writers brace for tough spending decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" data-attachment-id=\"616008\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/robin-scheu-1-20250218\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1663\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Glenn Russell&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6_2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Rep. 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The woman in the middle is wearing glasses and a blue striped sweater.\" class=\"wp-image-616008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-1568x1043.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-2000x1330.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/robin-scheu-1-20250218-706x470.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rep. Robin Scheu, D-Middlebury, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, speaks at the committee hears from Administration Secretary Sarah Clark at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell\/VTDigger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders of Vermont\u2019s House Appropriations Committee have warned colleagues that next year\u2019s state budget-building process could be among the most difficult in recent memory \u2014 potentially forcing some existing programs onto the chopping block \u2014 as lawmakers grapple with sweeping federal funding cuts in President Donald Trump\u2019s tax and spending law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe expect the upcoming state budget cycle to present a number of challenges that most of us have not experienced as legislators before due to uncertainty in the economic forecast and changes in the federal budget,\u201d wrote Rep. Robin Scheu, D-Middlebury, and Rep. Jim Harrison, R-Chittenden, in a memo to the full House last month. Scheu is the committee\u2019s chair; Harrison is its vice chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the leaders of the powerful budget-writing panel wrote, \u201cWe may need to ask policy committees to review existing programs to see if there are any that can be scaled back or may no longer be the priority they once were.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House\u2019s \u201cpolicy committees\u201d focus on specific areas of law, such as education, health care or transportation. The Appropriations Committee, which oversees state spending, and the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax policy, are known as the chamber\u2019s two \u201cmoney committees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The memo, which was shared with VTDigger, was part of an email House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, sent to all 150 House members on Aug. 11. Krowinski\u2019s email included a handful of other summertime updates for her colleagues, who <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/06\/16\/vermont-legislature-adjourns-2025-session-after-weeks-of-debate-on-education-reform\/\">adjourned their 2025 session in mid-June<\/a> and are slated to come back to the Statehouse for the 2026 session in January.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harrison described the intent of his and Scheu\u2019s message during a panel of top Vermont Republican leaders Thursday night in Ludlow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne, the message was, don&#8217;t think of new ways to spend the money, even though there are a lot of them,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd two, we need you to start thinking about, what are the programs that we have that may have been a good idea and served a good purpose 20 years ago, but maybe aren&#8217;t as important today as something else \u2014 like health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citing <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/07\/31\/so-far-so-good-for-vermont-state-coffers-but-economists-warn-dont-get-comfortable\/\">projections economists shared<\/a> with legislative leaders and Gov. Phil Scott in late July, Scheu and Harrison wrote that state revenues are expected to increase by about $61 million during the state\u2019s 2027 fiscal year. That\u2019s the time period, running from July 2026 to June 2027, for which lawmakers will be creating a new state budget starting in January.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While that revenue upgrade is good news, Scheu and Harrison wrote, it won\u2019t be enough to cover projected increases in salaries and benefits for state employees and \u201ca myriad of other fixed costs,\u201d they wrote, meaning \u201cwe can probably expect some adjustments to programs and services\u201d to make up the difference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The economists also cautioned that their projections could need to be revisited because of uncertainty over the impacts of both the GOP-led federal spending package and Trump\u2019s tariffs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t get comfortable,\u201d Tom Kavet, one of the state\u2019s economists, said in July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s unlikely, however, that the full Legislature will need to meet again this year to respond to losses in federal funding, Scheu and Harrison wrote. That\u2019s because many of the changes included in Trump\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d do not take effect until 2026, or later, the legislators said. That includes certain cuts to Medicaid and access to federal nutritional assistance, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/05\/15\/vermont-legislators-send-2026-budget-proposal-to-gov-phil-scott-after-making-cuts\/\">added several measures<\/a> into the state budget bill for the current fiscal year, which they approved in May, that would trigger a special legislative session if federal funding cuts reached certain thresholds. But those thresholds are unlikely to be hit just yet, according to Scheu and Harrison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before legislators start work on the state budget next year, they will first get a proposed spending plan from the Scott administration. 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