BOISE, ID – Idaho state government agencies’ budget requests for the next fiscal year are now publicly available.
The requests are online on the Division of Financial Management’s website, and are for Idaho’s fiscal year 2027, which starts July 1, 2026.
Last month, Idaho Gov. Brad Little ordered all state government agencies besides public schools to cut their budgets mid-year by 3% ahead of an $80 million projected budget shortfall. But the budget shortfall estimate didn’t account for tax cuts in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which could cost Idaho another $167 million to implement, the Idaho Capital Sun reported.
The budget request for Idaho’s largest state government agency, the Department of Health and Welfare, was not available online by 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The requests are one of the first major steps in the process to fund state government.
In January, Little typically releases his own proposed state budget. Then the Idaho Legislature, which usually meets during the first few months of the year, considers budget requests by state agencies and the governor as lawmakers craft budget bills.
Idaho’s powerful budget-setting committee, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, has shifted to a different budgeting process that splits agency budgets into barebones funding and new spending.
This story first appeared on Idaho Capital Sun.
