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El gobernador demócrata Andy Beshear criticó duramente el presupuesto aprobado por la Asamblea General controlada por republicanos, calificando los recortes a servicios sociales como "sin sentido y evitables", argumentando que el plan de gastos de dos años está dañando a kentuckianos vulnerables, incluyendo recortes de 76 millones de dólares en cuidado de crianza, trabajadores sociales y programas de asistencia. Beshear anunció que utilizaría aproximadamente 186 millones de dólares ahorrados por la rama ejecutiva para mitigar los cortes y proporcionar cuidado seguro y estable a 8.841 niños de Kentucky, mientras que los líderes republicanos defienden el presupuesto como fiscalmente responsable.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Governor Andy Beshear has published a new opinion piece attacking the Republican-controlled General Assembly’s budget, calling the spending plan’s cuts to social services “senseless and avoidable,” according to his office. The Democratic governor said in the piece published on the governor’s official website that the two-year budget passed by lawmakers earlier this year is harming vulnerable Kentuckians across the state.
Beshear has strongly criticized the budget, saying it effectively cuts Medicaid and funding for foster care and social services, potentially harming hospitals, clinics and vulnerable families. The budget includes “$76 million less for foster care, social workers, TANF and SNAP, resulting in delays in abuse and neglect cases, fewer foster parents, reduction of social workers and more.”
The latest opinion comes as Beshear continues grappling with the budget’s impact on state services. Roughly a thousand Kentuckians will likely lose their care team as the Lee Specialty Clinic must cut roughly two-thirds of its budget starting in mid-July. The clinic, which serves adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, faces significant shortfalls despite receiving a modest increase in overall funding at the department level.
Beshear has attempted to mitigate the cuts through executive action. The governor said he planned to use about $186 million, which he said was saved by the executive branch’s management of the state’s debt service, adding that he used a $25 million budget for an economic development project that didn’t happen and $5 million earmarked for a housing project at EKU that depended on a federal grant that also didn’t happen. That money would provide safe, stable foster and residential care for 8,841 Kentucky children.
House Speaker David Osborne and Republican leadership have defended the budget as fiscally responsible. The budget bill includes a $6.2 billion investment in the state’s general fund over the biennium toward Medicaid with an additional $290 million allocation reserved for future use “if necessary.” Osborne has criticized Beshear’s announced cuts as unnecessary, arguing the legislature provided him with flexibility to protect vulnerable services.
This article was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) based on source material from Office of the Governor, enriched with 2 web searches. The original source is available at https://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=GovernorBeshear&prId=2776.
