Your Budget. Your Future.
New Hampshire Republicans have run up the tab, and they are driving up your property taxes to pay the bill.
Every day, New Hampshire families sit at their kitchen tables and balance their household budgets, factoring in the cost of housing, property taxes, groceries, and child care.
In Concord, the state legislature has started the same process for the state budget which directly impacts municipal budgets and your access to higher education, child care, health care, and more.
Governor Kelly Ayotte just released her version of the state budget, which is now in the hands of Republican legislators who will ultimately decide what services get funded, what services get cut, and how much of those costs are downshifted to you.
Over the coming weeks, we will learn more about Governor Ayotte’s budget and what cuts House and Senate Republicans propose to the services Granite Staters rely on.
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How will the budget impact Granite Staters like you?
Hover over each family member to read more about them.
John is a state employee at the NH Department of Health and Human Services, which helps ensure Granite Staters have access to Medicaid, mental health and disability services, and more.
Mary is a lifelong Granite Stater who moved in with her family after she couldn’t afford the property taxes on her home.
Susan is Mary’s daughter and a small business owner who relies on childcare services to balance her time between her family and business.
Jen, age 11, is enrolled in the neighborhood public school and relies on special education to succeed in school and thrive outside of the classroom.
Josh, age 17, is graduating from high school this year, but he isn’t sure if he can afford to attend one of New Hampshire’s public universities.
We will continue to learn more about the state budget as it makes its way through the state legislature, so sign up here to get real-time updates on the budget and how it will affect you:
BUDGET UPDATES
The details of Governor Ayotte’s budget are coming into focus — and so are the price tags. Her budget increases costs for Granite Staters, from health care to child care to college tuition.
Meanwhile, as Senate Democratic Leader Rebecca Perkins Kwoka and House Democratic Leader Alexis Simpson noted in a new op-ed about the budget, Ayotte’s math simply doesn’t add up. Read the op-ed here.
Now that the budget is with House Republicans, who promised to take a “chainsaw” to state funding, Granite Staters should expect Republicans to increase costs even more.
The House will vote on its version of the budget on April 10th, so come back here for more updates!
How did we get here?
New Hampshire Republicans have spent nearly a decade pushing fiscally irresponsible policies that have bailed out large, out of state corporations, downshifted costs onto communities, increased property taxes, and created a massive revenue shortfall that will ultimately hurt working families and small businesses the most.
We know this because we’ve seen it before – in 2011, the last time Republicans in New Hampshire held a super majority in the legislature, they cut funding for public education, retirement benefits for first responders, and services for the developmentally disabled. Granite Staters are still suffering from those cuts today.
The budget comes as Granite Staters are already struggling with a housing crisis, childcare crisis, and high property taxes.
New Hampshire Republicans have run up the tab and now they are passing the bill on to you.
The New Hampshire Advantage no longer benefits hardworking Granite Staters, families, individuals, and small businesses who will bear the brunt of Republicans’ budget cuts.
