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Utah gets small portion of federal funding compared to other states. The Legislature’s rejection of full Medicaid expansion is the main reason.

While the federal government provides increasingly larger slices of the budget pie in most states, Utah is an exception, according to a new study by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

And Utah legislators’ refusal to fully expand Medicaid for low-income people is a key reason why, it says. Utah voters will decide themselves whether to approve full Medicaid expansion through an initiative that will appear as Proposition 3 on the Nov. 6 ballot.

The federal government provided 25.7 percent of state revenue in Utah in 2016 to pay for public services such as health care, education, transportation and new facilities, the study reported this week, using data from the U.