OPERATING BUDGET

The final supplemental operating budget appropriates $72 billion (NGF-O), a $2.2 billion increase over current 2023-25 spending. While the budget pays for many important core services, it once again contains no meaningful tax relief for working families. The state has a moral imperative to provide tax relief.

The budget also fails to provide resources to address some of our state’s most serious problems, such as the fentanyl epidemic.

TRANSPORTATION BUDGET

This year’s supplemental transportation budget was a thoughtful, bipartisan spending plan that focuses on key statewide priorities. It adds $1.1 billion to the $13.5 billion allocated last year, prioritizing maintenance and preservation.

Other spending highlights include:

• $600 million federal grant funding for the I-5 Interstate replacement bridge;
• $5.9 million for training and arming a third Washington State Trooper class;
• $2 million additional funding for clean-up of encampments on highway right-of-ways, which makes a total of $13.5 million for the biennium; and
• $1 million to implement House Bill 1989 for graffiti