Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds approved about 25 million in cuts to the current year’s state budget last week — and Republican legislative leaders say the budget plan they’re crafting for NEXT YEAR will be “a little bit bigger” that this year’s pared down spending plan. Senate President Charles Schneider, a Republican from West Des Moines, is also leading the Senate Appropriations Committee.
House Speaker Linda Upmeyer of Clear Lake says Republican lawmakers are “fairly close” to making key decisions on how large next year’s state budget will be and how large the G-O-P’s tax cut package will be.
Upmeyer identifies education, health care, courts and corrections as the core functions of state government. She says managers in other areas of state government may agency budgets “move backward” next year.
