Missouri governor hopes to shrink state budget as he prioritizes ending income tax
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What is Governor Kehoe’s overall plan for shrinking Missouri’s budget?
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From KCUR, this is up to date. I'm producer Hallie Jackson. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe is approaching the halfway point of his first term, and it feels like a lot is going on. At the ballot box, voters will consider some big issues in August and November, including abortion rights and the Republican governor's top priority this year, advancing an effort to eliminate the state income tax. There's the movement of Missouri's professional sports teams to new stadiums, controversy around building data centers, and sitting on top of the governor's desk right now, a proposed budget that another state official warns could move the state dangerously close to going broke. Today, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe joined our host, Brian Ellison, to talk about how it's all going and to answer listener questions too.
Let's hear the conversation.
We appreciate you joining us and I know it was you're uh you're on the road today, so uh thanks for for making the time. You bet. Uh we uh well let's start with something that is definitely not doom and gloom. It's the World Cup. Uh I understand you were here at the game on Tuesday, you got to see the Lionel Messi hat trip.
Oh yeah. I mean that was uh I I told uh we had some friends from uh business people that were talking to uh Missouri moving to Missouri about or considering Missouri from Argentina and uh and and I told him, I said, Being at a World Cup and seeing Messi score a goal is something you'll remember for the rest of your life. And then when he got three goals I said, Now this is something you'd be telling your grandkids about. I mean It was just amazing. The atmosphere was like I've never seen before and uh uh really uh happy on the way the uh the the city pulled it off. A few fine tune uh issues, I know they're trying to work very hard, K C twenty twenty six with the transportation, but overall the way the fan fest is run and uh the uh folks being around town, the international visitors we're seeing
Uh I think it's really uh given great exposure to Kansas City and the region.
Will you be able to take in any more of the activities in uh Kansas City over the next few weeks?
Yeah, we're gonna try. Uh uh we hope to get up there for Saturday's game. We're still working on that, but again we're we're trying to use it as a way to showcase to economic development prospects uh what Kansas City and Missouri has to offer and a really unique uh environment. So uh we'll we'll try to utilize um what we can do with the games for promoting Missouri. I think that's the appropriate thing to do.
And and promoting Missouri, you think that uh this really will result in economic benefit to the state?
Well you hope to. Economic development, uh I've been involved in a long time through my business career, through various ch uh local chambers, state chamber. You know, I would say you gotta kiss a lot of frogs to find the prince. And so, um, economic development is not, you know, have one meeting and all of a sudden a company moves here. It's uh it's a whole process and um showing uh uh folks that are thinking about doing business with our state or already have a business here might want to expand, uh that we have the ability to put on a world class event like World Cup, uh that the community is excited and engaged, uh and that we can provide a safe but fun environment. I think uh is a really good place to start in some of these conversations.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is Governor Kehoe’s overall plan for shrinking Missouri’s budget?
0:00–6:47
2
How does the World Cup experience relate to Missouri’s economic development strategy?
6:47–13:13
3
What are the costs and expected returns of the new Royals stadium project?
13:13–19:15
4
Why is eliminating the state income tax the governor’s top priority?
19:15–23:22
5
How does the administration plan to offset lost income‑tax revenue without raising property taxes?
23:22–28:07
6
What is the state’s stance on data‑center growth and how will it be regulated?
28:07–29:49
Speakers
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