order targeting federal spending remains in place.

How would Kentucky be affected if there is a federal spending freeze in the future?

Kentucky Edition spoke to the left leading Kentucky center for economic policy to find out.

>> A lot of folks view federal funding is just impacting lower-income Kentucky ends.

But it supports.

I'm jobs in the state.

It supports.

For water and air quality and supports our education systems.

Our health care systems, our transportation systems, and so, you know, I think it's really important right now to just acknowledge a lot of the ways that the federal government benefits Kentucky INS across the board, particularly as Congress right now is considering pretty large scale counts to the federal government through the budget You know, there's sort of 2 things happening at once here.

But I think each informs the other and we should really appreciate the ways that Kentucky, which per capita receives the 5th largest amount of federal funding in the country.

I really benefits from this about 4 out of every $10 we spend of the state budget for federal dollars.

We actually spend more in federal dollars as a state that we bring in tax revenue.

So it's a very significant portion of the way we care for the commonwealth and the people who are most likely to be harmed by this are the most vulnerable and sensitive populations.

We have the average her son is directly impacted by things like Medicaid and snap.

I mean, if you work at a grocery store, a significant portion of your revenue comes from step participants.

You know, we have round one in 7 Kentuckians who are participating in the program.

They're using it to buy their groceries and of that falls off and that that's a real problem.

You know, we have one in 3, Kentuckyian to utilize Medicaid for their health coverage that Medicaid stops making payments, whole hospitals could shut down.

And that means that, you know, healthcare capacity for the entire community dries up.

We already have a doctor shortage your title, one funds are federal funds that go to schools and particularly rural another low income parts of the state.

Those funds are currently supporting positions in those schools that that offer extra supports to students, things like intervention services.

So if your child is getting, you know, help with their reading or their math right now, a title one school and that money dries up.

Then then you're going to be out a lot.

We also have about 4 and a half billion dollars on top of what we spend through the state budget in ongoing infrastructure and energy projects throughout the state.

The Brent Spence Bridge is a great example of that.

One.

Now that 250 million in federal funding that's going toward the Brent Spence Bridge isn't the entirety of funding that's going to that project.

But certainly without those federal funds that they would grind to a crawl at the minimum.

>> The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy says Kentucky's federal grants for 2025.