As the new chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Jason Barrett has a challenge ahead: the general fund deficit of more than $400 million anticipated by the Morrisey administration for the next fiscal year.
Barrett, R-Berkeley, said state officials are up to the task.
“I would agree with Governor Morrisey that we are facing some challenges for fiscal year ’26 budget. It’s something that those of us who have been in the Legislature and worked through the states finances over the past number of years were aware of,” Barrett said in a telephone interview.
Incoming Gov. Patrick Morrisey, a Republican, announced during his first week in office that his administration projects a budget deficit of more than $400 million for the fiscal year that begins next July 1.
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