Governor Kehoe recently announced that Missouri expects a $1 billion shortfall in general revenue in FY 2027. This shortfall is expected mostly because of the implementation of previously passed tax cuts. COVID-related savings temporarily masked the shortfall, and this budget gap has grown as state legislators continued to approve additional tax cuts. The recently passed federal budget cuts will magnify this gap. Over the past five years, extraordinary federal funds designed to address the he...| Missouri Budget Project
The recently passed budget reconciliation bill prioritizes tax cuts and expands loopholes for the wealthy and corporations while cutting more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and food assistance – all while adding $3.4 trillion to the national deficit. This legislation leaves hardworking Missouri families behind by providing only modest, temporary tax reductions that are outweighed by the loss of health coverage, food assistance, and other critical benefits – while permanently expanding loo...| Missouri Budget Project - Shaping Policies. Creating Opportunties.
Medicaid (called MO HealthNet in Missouri) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) help keep Missourians and their families healthy and fed, so they can work, succeed in school, and contribute to their communities. But recently passed provisions included in the final budget reconciliation bill (OBBB) amount to the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history and would take health coverage and food assistance away from Missourians, shift costs to states, and make life harder...| Missouri Budget Project
The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 was a critical step forward in supporting families. FMLA provides job protections for millions of workers who need to take time off to bond with a child, care for an aging parent or recover from a serious illness. However, because FMLA only guarantees unpaid time off, it is only truly accessible to those who can afford to forgo their paychecks. This means that many Missourians must continue working, leaving them unable to fully recover from childbir...| Missouri Budget Project
For Immediate Release: July 10, 2025Contact: Amy Blouin, Governor Signs $500 Million Tax Giveaway as State Faces Growing Budget Challenges Statement from Missouri Budget Project CEO Amy Blouin Governor Kehoe is expected to sign House Bill 594 this afternoon, a tax bill that will reduce state revenue by at least half a billion dollars annually. This comes at a time when our state is already facing significant budget pressures, as well as significant cuts to federal funding in the coming ye...| Missouri Budget Project
For Immediate Release: July 3, 2025Contact: Amy Blouin, Congress Passes Budget Reconciliation Community leaders respond to passage of the budget reconciliation bill, which puts health coverage and food assistance for hundreds of thousands of Missourians on the chopping block In a final vote today, the U.S. House of Representatives chose to take health coverage and food assistance away from Missourians, shift costs to states, and make life harder for families struggling to make ends m...| Missouri Budget Project
For Immediate Release: July 1, 2025Contact: Amy Blouin, U.S. Senate Passes Budget Reconciliation Senate-passed budget reconciliation bill puts health coverage and food assistance for hundreds of thousands of Missourians on the chopping block In a final vote this morning, the U.S. Senate chose to take health coverage and food assistance away from Americans, shift costs to states, and make life harder for families struggling to make ends meet. If passed by the House, it would enact a massiv...| Missouri Budget Project
During the 2025 State Legislative Session, lawmakers passed House Bill 594, which exempts capital gains from income tax, making Missouri the only state in the nation that levies an individual income tax that does not also tax capital gains.[i] Capital gains are income generated from the profits individuals and businesses make on stocks, cryptocurrencies, real estate and other valuables. The exemption is expensive and will reduce state general revenue by at least $341 million and likely in exc...| Missouri Budget Project
Media Contact: Traci Gleason Missouri Community Leaders Urge Senators to Oppose Federal Medicaid CutsCongressional Proposal Would Cause Missourians to Become Uninsured,Endanger Health Access to Rural Communities JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, June 2, 2025 – As the U.S. Senate reconvenes in Washington this week, community leaders gathered in Jefferson City to urge Missouri Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt to reject the package of Medicaid cuts passed by the U.S. House in May. Medicaid helps keep M...| Missouri Budget Project
Medicaid helps keep Missourians and their families healthy, so they can work, succeed in school, and contribute to their communities. But Congress is considering the biggest cuts to Medicaid in history, resulting in unprecedented reductions in health services for Missourians. The more than $700 billion in Medicaid cuts would create barriers that cause Missourians to lose health coverage, increase the cost of health services, and undermine the existing quality of care. Roughly 110,000 Missouri...| Missouri Budget Project
SNAP helps 1 in 10 Missouri residents, or more than 620,000 Missourians, meet their nutritional needs. The Budget Reconciliation bill approved by the House on May 23, 2025 would severely cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and harm millions of households. Click here to read an analysis prepared by Empower Missouri and Missouri Budget Project outlining the provisions of SNAP cuts in the bill and the impact of those provisions on Missouri. The budget proposal makes fundamental...| Missouri Budget Project
