Four weeks into an unprecedented shutdown of the federal government, Utah’s state government remains in “decent shape,” but with some harder decisions on the horizon, according to Kristen Cox, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget, or GOMB.
During a Monday update with members of the press, Cox said her office is turning its attention toward longer-terms plans for maintaining public services without support from Washington, D.C.
“There’s nothing significant looming in the next week,” Cox said. “My biggest concern now is looking out six weeks to two months.”
Many programs, including nutrition services and defense, maintain funding from budget bills that passed prior to the stalemate between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over $5.