Grow said the memo calling on public schools to submit plans for budget cuts does not guarantee that the Idaho Legislature will actually cut the public school budget. Instead, Grow said public schools and Medicaid were invited to submit budget cutting plans so legislators would have the data. Grow also noted that the K–12 public school budget and Medicaid budget are the two largest budgets in the state. If the state’s two largest budgets were not part of the budget cuts, the new cuts could be harder on the smaller state agencies, and it could be more difficult to come up with significant overall savings to stabilize the state budget. “So when those are excluded, that puts a heavy burden on all the other departments and agencies.”Why is Idaho bracing for more state budget cuts?