{"id":114,"date":"2025-05-21T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:34:38","slug":"wa-governor-signs-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wa-governor-signs-state-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"WA Governor Signs State Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some good news on the political front:<\/p>\n<p>Steve Bollens, WSU Faculty Representative to the WA State Legislature, reports today that Governor Bob Ferguson signed the 2025-27 state budget. As the article in <em>The Seattle Times<\/em> reports, Ferguson signed in $9B in new taxes that will fund the budget over the next four years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">&#8220;The $78 billion two-year budget . . . raises state spending by more than 8%., or $6B over the current two-year budget, funding pay raises for most state workers and maintaining social and other services.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/ferguson-signs-9-billion-in-new-taxes-to-fund-state-budget\/\">https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/ferguson-signs-9-billion-in-new-taxes-to-fund-state-budget\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good news on the political front: Steve Bollens, WSU Faculty Representative to the WA State Legislature, reports today that Governor Bob Ferguson signed the 2025-27 state budget. As the article in The Seattle Times reports, Ferguson signed in $9B in new taxes that will fund the budget over the next four years. &#8220;The $78 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc-wsuv.org\/cfr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}