{"id":9504,"date":"2019-02-27T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/?p=9504"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:37:32","slug":"senate-republicans-release-budget-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/senate-republicans-release-budget-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans Release Budget Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, Senate Republicans released their budget targets for FY 2020. The overall budget of $7,619,300,000 is the same amount of funding allocated in FY 2019. These targets are $48 million less than the House and $39 million less than the governor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"519\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BudgetTargets_2019-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BudgetTargets_2019-1.png 519w, https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BudgetTargets_2019-1-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BudgetTargets_2019-1-314x160.png 314w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSenate Republicans are maintaining their commitment to taxpayers to manage their money prudently and put their interests first,\u201d said Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver, R-Ankeny. \u201cOur caucus is committed to continuing to implement pro-growth policies. This budget is one early step in implementing that agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Mike Breitbach, R-Strawberry Point, said, \u201cI look forward to working with my colleagues, the House of Representatives, and the governor to implement a sustainable, responsible, and conservative budget to continue to fund the priorities of Iowans and keep Iowa on the path to maintain its status as the Number One state in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These budget targets include $38.8 million in additional tax relief in FY 20. The targets also include nearly $130 million in new funding for education, $14.5 million in new funding for public safety, and $106 million in new funding for health care. The decrease in Unassigned Standings is because the increases in the FY 20 budget are less than the $113 million cash reserve repayment that is not necessary in FY 20. Reductions in Health and Human Services are because of one-time expenditures in FY 19 on Medicaid and an increase in federal funding for that program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable. Responsible. Conservative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5y3Wb-2ti","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}