TOPEKA — The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is expected to cost Kansas at least $150 million as provisions cutting health care programs go into effect, Gov. Laura Kelly said in an interview with Kansas Reflector.

She said state agencies are studying implications of the law, and while guidance from the federal government has been unclear or incomplete, it’s clear the state budget will feel a bite when tens of millions of federal dollars are lost.

“And that’s if we don’t choose to cover some of the folks who will be knocked off of programs or hospitals that need support,” Kelly said.

“The reality is we don’t have that kind of money. No state has the money to backfill these programs that were designed to be federally supported,” she added.

Kelly was referring to cuts included in the federal l

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