School and Medicaid funding worries linger post-session for WA lawmakers

The ink is hardly dry on Washington’s new budget and already legislative leaders are anticipating more fiscal uncertainty.

Democrats are focused on threats to health care access if Congress slashes Medicaid funding, while Republicans are warning of renewed legal jeopardy in education funding.

In post-session interviews on TVW’s Inside Olympia, House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, D-West Seattle, warned that a U.S. House-passed budget legislation — if enacted — could force Washington into a special session to make emergency Medicaid adjustments.

“I’m very concerned about the prospects that Republicans in Congress are going to cut Medicaid at a level that’s going to lead to a whole lot of people losing health care around the country,” Fitzgibbon said. “We’re not able to insulate ourselves from that entirely.”

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