Ferguson wants to cut WA agency spending by 6%. Here's what that looks like
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson wants to slash government spending by 6%. He calculates this will save roughly $1.8 billion in the next two-year state budget and erase about a third of a projected shortfall during that time.
Now, as he nears the end of his first month in office, we’re getting a better idea of what this means in dollars and cents.
Leaders of affected agencies were given a reduction target, instructed to come up with ways to achieve it, and to submit those proposals to Ferguson by Feb. 6.
He’s not made those cost-cutting ideas public yet. Ferguson is expected later this month to reveal which of them he’d like state lawmakers to incorporate into the budgets they’ll be releasing in late March or early April.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/12/ferguson-wants-to-cut-wa-agency-spending-by-6-heres-what-that-looks-like/