Alaska Legislature passes stopgap budget, amid uncertainty around war-driven oil revenues

By: Corinne Smith

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: March 27, 2026

Words: 739

Last Updated: 4 months, 1 week ago

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The Alaska Legislature on Wednesday approved a stopgap budget bill amid an ongoing debate among lawmakers around war-driven oil revenues and whether to draw from state savings.

The stopgap budget bill contains $449.6 million in state spending including for disaster relief, construction, education, correctional officer overtime and some public assistance programs — expenses accrued since the Legislature and Gov. Mike Dunleavy adopted the state budget last year.

But the question of how and when all …

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