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Governor Morrisey Announces More Than $168 Million in Potential Savings Across State Government

Published May 18, 2026 | Video Starts at 07:07

But we're making real progress. We asked some pretty fundamental questions. We what's working, what's not and where can we do better? Today We're releasing these audits so they'll be available on our website. so people have a chance to examine them. Because the people of West Virginia do deserve that transparency. You could see in this chart coming up. (07:07–07:11)

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“Over $12.8 billion of private sector investment since October.”
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“The average cost of those complex cases are about $160,000 per person.”
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“TANF is projected to exceed $140 million.”
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“We're building a bridge to the future where there's going to be over 12,000 projected jobs.”
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“We believe we've identified up to $168 million of potential savings.”
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“When we identify savings through the Department of Transportation...we work to put that money back into pave more roads.”
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“We've asked our agencies to make sure that [paying for unused subscriptions] is not happening here in West Virginia anymore.”
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“We found one, that there were unused cell phones in place of the executive branch. $87,000.”
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“We've identified about $50 million that might be able to be retained [in DOT savings].”
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“We think we can save over $33 million [through improved contract oversight].”
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“Combined, the recommendations at DOT are over $50 million significant.”
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“We've identified over $39 million in savings [at Homeland Security].”
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“If we end up having our officers wear body cameras, if that happens, that's expected to save about $1.9 million.”
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“Our auditor found that there were a number of policies if we implemented, we could save over $68 million [in human services].”
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“We're shipping so many kids out of state and we're paying so much more than the average kid because we're sending them to faraway places.”
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“We believe through better technology we're going to be able to save over $18 million per year.”
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“We found that we could, through some better practices, save money. And when you can have $1.3 million less in postage, maybe because you're…”
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“The emergency spending levels created a big structural deficit.”
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“We saw there were changes that were made going back, you know, pre-COVID that kept coming and coming, and then the monies that were going in…”
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“Our goal was to match the ongoing expenditures with the budget allocation. So you see the numbers. 100 million annually and TANF is…”
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“We obviously as we get savings, we want to feed it more into fixing the roads.”
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“There's been much more aggressive review over [internal controls in Human Services] over the last year.”
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“We may be making some announcements on [a CFO, COO type position] soon.”
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“I'm not aware of a comprehensive review like this that's happened in state government in a very, very long time.”
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“We're making progress every day on the type of improvements that are necessary to run a more effective state government and to save taxpayer…”
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