State officials will get an updated look at Maryland’s revenue picture in a month, but the leader of the Maryland Senate expressed confidence Monday that the state is prepared — at least in the near term — to weather the as-yet-unrealized fallout of ongoing federal budget actions.

Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) said delays in implementation of recently passed federal budget cuts and employee reductions, and ongoing court challenges to policies implemented by President Donald Trump (R) will have some negative effect on the current budget year.

“We’re expecting to see negative numbers as compared to year over year, but we had built those into our projections,” Ferguson told reporters Monday.

The comments came after a 70-minute briefing for the Joint Federal Action Overs

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