Observed arrival · 2026-10-22
Vermont’s Budget, Line by Line
The Open Books Project turns Vermont’s FY2026 state budget into a searchable, plain-language ledger of appropriations.
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- Vermont residents, journalists, and legislators
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- The site separates $11.85 billion in summed line items from an estimated $9.1 billion counted once, detailing sources of overlap.
Why it surfaced
It acknowledges that adding every listed line produces $11.85 billion, not the budget’s counted-once $9.1 billion—and explains why. That unusually direct accounting caveat is the point of the project.
The Open Books Project turns Vermont’s FY2026 state budget into a searchable, plain-language ledger of appropriations.
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