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Idaho Lawmaking 101: The Budget, Medicaid, and a Rare Senate Rejection

Idaho Lawmaking 101: The Budget, Medicaid, and a Rare Senate Rejection

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Budgets aren’t flashy and they’re usually not the most fun thing to talk about. But when the Idaho Senate rejected the state’s largest budget bill the $5.7 billion Health and Welfare budget it revealed deeper tensions inside the Legislature over fiscal responsibility, Medicaid spending, and recent tax cuts. In this episode of The Purple Zone,

I break down:

1. How Idaho’s budget process works,

2. Why the Senate rejected the proposal, and

3. Work to connect the policy to our everyday language and lives, because budgets are where government decisions become real for communities.

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