Here's a question...

[bucolic_frolic]

1. There are a lot of federal state matching programs.

DOGE will blow a hole in all state budgets. Maybe $2 billion for small states, $7-9 billion for the largest. They are cutting SNAP, school lunch support, daycare, Area Agency on Aging (one in every county because that's what administers SS and Medicare eligibility). Senior food lunch support for low-income senior - Meals on Wheels - eliminated from what I read.

Yes state umemployment agencies are already changing offerings for federal layoffs. They gear up quickly. IF they can grow state revenue through income tax receipts, MAYBE the state will find funding.

The state is gone. This is like Dickens' England now. Survival-of-the-fittest world that even Darwin could not imagine.