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Morrisey outlines fiscal year 2026 budget issues in greater detail

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The white board – once a staple of former governor Jim Justice’s briefings – returned to the Governor’s Reception Room Tuesday morning as Gov. Patrick Morrisey provided more details on a projected $400 million hole in the fiscal year 2026 budget that he will have to provide a plan to fill in 15 days.

In his first week in office in his second press briefing Jan. 16, Morrisey said that as of his first day in office, the general revenue budget for fiscal year 2026 – beginning July 1 and ending June 20, 2026 – shows a $400 million deficit. The projections do not project a deficit for the current fiscal year, which ends Monday, June 30.

“We’re going to be able to get through those budget challenges to the other side. But we’ve been learning a lot more over the last few weeks,” Morrisey said. “We want to learn more, and we are learning more every single day. With that, I said I wanted to be transparent about the budget and what we’re finding.”

Morrisey said past general revenue budgets, including the current fiscal year, have been propped up by one-time monies, the influx of federal dollars from COVID-19 recovery, and shortchanging state departments and agencies by not properly budgeting and using mid-year supplemental appropriations.

Read more: https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2025/01/morrisey-outlines-fiscal-year-2026-budget-issues-in-greater-detail/

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