Taking Back Alaska: State could cut $39M/year in non-essential travel, PR
Alaska’s state agencies continue to operate with pre-COVID levels of travel, outreach, vanity publications and other non-essential expenditures despite tightened fiscal
Taking Back Alaska: Start with targeted cuts to bloated state bureaucracy
Alaska’s core problem is structural. Each year, billions in federal grants arrive attached to administrative strings that grow state government beyond what its own economy can sustain. Entire departments now exist primarily to manage federal



