Missouri

State vs National PER

Subscription Types

Violation Rate vs National Avg (3.6%)

Quarterly Grant Spending (FY2021-FY2025)

Top Agencies

Top Programs (CFDA)

Credit Ratings (GO Bonds)

Unemployment Rate (24 months, seasonally adjusted)

New Priorities in 2026

• +Advanced Nuclear Energy Task Force (Executive Order 26-04) to promote nuclear energy deployment in Missouri, an entirely new policy area not addressed in 2025.
• +AI governance framework (Executive Order 26-02) establishing the administration's commitment to safely and effectively using artificial intelligence in state government operations.
• +Statewide school accountability A-F grade card (Executive Order 26-01), creating a new performance measurement system for schools.
• +Formal Missouri GREAT initiative (Executive Order 26-03) for government efficiency, replacing the vaguely outlined 'Show-Me DOGE' concept from 2025 with an institutionalized program focused on responsibility, efficiency, accountability, and transformation.
• +Major fiscal austerity agenda reducing more than $600 million from the general revenue core operating budget to address a projected $2 billion future spending imbalance, framed as returning to pre-pandemic sustainable spending levels.
• +A concrete ballot measure strategy for income tax elimination, calling on the General Assembly to pass a joint resolution placing the phased elimination on the ballot this year, with previewed revenue replacement through taxing modern services.

Dropped from 2025

• −Specific public safety spending proposals including the $10 million Blue Shield Program for local law enforcement equipment, $2.5 million for sheriff's retirement, and funding for a new crime lab in Cape Girardeau.
• −Comprehensive crime legislation details including increased penalties for violent rioting, fleeing in vehicles, stunt driving, and increased oversight of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
• −Fentanyl crisis initiatives including $4 million for wastewater testing in schools and legislation to charge fentanyl dealers with first-degree murder.
• −Childcare reform agenda including $10 million in employer-community partnership grants, executive order for regulatory rewrite, and commitment to pay providers at the beginning of the month on enrollment.
• −Detailed K-12 education spending including the $200 million Foundation Formula increase, $50 million for ESAs, $33 million for teacher salaries, $30 million for Small School Grants, and $370 million for school transportation.
• −Career and technical education investments including $15 million for CTE centers, $5 million in annual operational support, and $1 million for career counseling expansion, along with the Governor's Workforce of the Future Challenge.
• −$10 million in additional general revenue funding for Missouri Veterans Homes with the pledge that no veterans home would close due to lack of state funding.
• −Missouri State Fair infrastructure investment including bonding for a 40,000 square foot livestock barn and 80,000 square foot stalling barn.
• −Alternatives to abortion funding of $4 million for expecting and new mothers, representing a 50% increase to existing services.
• −Immigration enforcement coordination with the Trump Administration and border security references.
• −Tort reform legislation and regulatory reduction directives for Cabinet agencies.
• −State employee retention pay plan increases based on years of service.
• −Professional licensing reciprocity for spouses of law enforcement officers.
• −School safety legislation requiring inter-agency meetings and incident reporting to DESE.
• −Voluntary open enrollment in public schools and additional charter school capital improvement funding.
• −$100 million reappropriation for rural road improvements.
• −$800,000 in permanent funding for Missouri FFA.
• −School Funding Modernization Task Force and critique of the Foundation Formula.

Shifted Emphasis

• ↔Income tax elimination moved from a directional goal — tasking the Department of Revenue with developing a plan and requesting SB 509-style triggers — to an aggressive, ballot-ready strategy calling for a joint resolution this year with specific details about revenue replacement through taxing modern services.
• ↔Government efficiency evolved from a loosely described 'Show-Me DOGE' concept with no budget allocation in 2025 to a formalized initiative — Missouri GREAT — established by executive order with defined principles of responsibility, efficiency, accountability, and transformation.
• ↔Education accountability shifted from a 2025 focus on spending increases and a School Funding Modernization Task Force to a 2026 emphasis on performance measurement through an A-F school grade card system, while explicitly protecting core K-12 foundation formula funding from the $600 million in budget cuts.
• ↔The overall fiscal posture shifted dramatically from an expansive spending agenda with numerous new investments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025 to a disciplined austerity framework in 2026, cutting $600 million and citing $13 billion in new general revenue spending added since FY2022.
• ↔The four policy pillars of public safety, economic development, agriculture, and education were maintained as stated priorities in both years, but the 2026 address frames them within a context of fiscal constraint rather than new investment, with far less specificity on individual programs and dollar amounts.

NAEP Scores (2024 Nation's Report Card)

Bridges (FHWA NBI 2025)

Drinking Water (EPA SDWIS)

Contributions by Party

Top Easy Wins

• 1.
  Unified Missouri Employer Compliance Portal — "Missouri Business One-Stop"(DED, DOR, DOLIR, SOS, DCI)
• 2.
  DNR Water Quality Permit Streamlining — 120-Day Target(DNR)
• 3.
  SOS Same-Day Automated LLC Approval(SOS)
• 4.
  Mining Permit Streamlining — 90-Day Target, Electronic System(DNR)
• 5.
  Surplus Lines Streamlining — Reduce Diligent Search for Severe Weather(DCI, Legislature)

Declarations by Year

Incident Types

Recent Declarations