Gov. Inslee vetoed some sections of the 2024 supplemental operating and transportation budgets. (He did not veto any sections of the capital budget.) The vetoes have only a modest impact on appropriations.

According to the state’s fiscal data (updated today), the enacted budgets (reflecting the governor’s vetoes) appropriate just a few million less than the budgets as passed by the Legislature. In the operating budget, appropriations from funds subject to the outlook (NGFO) decreased by $2.1 million and appropriations from all funds decreased by $3.8 million. In the transportation budget, appropriations from all funds decreased by $1.6 million.

Consequently, revised 2023–25 appropriations (including the enacted 2024 supplementals) are:

• $71.945 billion from the NGFO (an increase of 15.8% over 2021–23),
• $140.927 billion from all funds (including the NGFO) in the operating budget,
• $14.713 billion from all funds in the transportation budget, and
• $10.314 billion from all funds in the capital budget.

Our report on the operating budget as passed by the Legislature is here. I wrote about the transportation and capital supplementals here and here.