House Minority Caucus

Tuesday, February 10, 2026·1h 27m·▶ Watch / Listen

House Minority Caucus walked through the FY25-26 supplemental package with JBC's Rick Taggart, who framed a $175 million-plus increase as almost entirely entitlement caseload but repeatedly clashed with departments over their numbers — voting no on the Medicaid supplemental himself and warning the state cannot balance its books without dipping into the reserve.

Key Actions

·FY25-26 Supplemental OverviewAction

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Notable Quotes

“what we are being asked to decide over the next couple of days is $175 million increase over the budget we approved last April. Is that accurate?”
Stephanie Luck — Luck's question crystallized the scale of the mid-year supplemental for the caucus.

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TranscriptPreview

Here. Bradley. Here. Brooks caldwell. Here. Gonzalez. Buenos dias. Garcia, sander. Artsook. Here. Taggart. Here. Winner. Here. Luke. Kelsey. Here. Sukla. Here. Slaw flinell. Here. Weinberg. Johnson. Here. Richardson. Here. Bradfield. Degraff. Luck. Here. So for. All right, we have a quorum at this time. We will turn the floor over to Representative Taggart. He will run through things. He does have a hard stop. You said it at noon, correct? All right, so let's hold the questions. If you can run through, give us the big picture and then we can follow up with that majority caucus. Thank you all for being I'm sorry, say again who was speaking. All right. This is the House minority caucus meeting. The majority is upstairs in the library. All right, Rep. Taggart, floor is yours. Thank you, Mr. Caucus Chair. I hope everybody brought their books. It's labeled Supplemental narrative fiscal year 2526, and that's what I'm going to be referring to throughout, throughout the discussion. I am going to go over a quick overview on page three and then I'm going to go through about five of the major departments because trying to go through all 22 departments would be difficult.…

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