Context
PolicyEngine-US and policyengine-api are adding federal vs. state fiscal impact attribution (see PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#8075, #8076). The app does not currently show a federal/state split in budget impact views.
Proposed change
On the budget/fiscal-impact section of the reform output:
- Add a stacked bar (or two side-by-side bars) showing federal vs. state fiscal impact of the reform, alongside the existing total.
- Detailed budget table: add columns for "federal" and "state" next to the existing "difference" column, so per-program attribution is visible (the existing
detailed_budgetary_impact keyed by program becomes a matrix of program × level-of-government).
- Copy update on the fiscal impact narrative: current phrasing conflates "federal fiscal impact" with total cost. Distinguish once the API exposes the split.
Dependency
Blocked by policyengine-api change to expose federal_budgetary_impact and state_budgetary_impact (separate issue). Variables already exist in policyengine-us post-#8076: federal_benefit_cost, state_benefit_cost, and per-program medicaid_federal_cost / medicaid_state_cost / chip_federal_cost / chip_state_cost.
Why this matters
For reforms that shift cost between levels of government (Medicaid expansion rollback, OBBBA SNAP state match, FMAP changes), the fiscal story is federal-vs-state, not aggregate. Users currently can't see this from the app.
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Context
PolicyEngine-US and policyengine-api are adding federal vs. state fiscal impact attribution (see PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#8075, #8076). The app does not currently show a federal/state split in budget impact views.
Proposed change
On the budget/fiscal-impact section of the reform output:
detailed_budgetary_impactkeyed by program becomes a matrix of program × level-of-government).Dependency
Blocked by policyengine-api change to expose
federal_budgetary_impactandstate_budgetary_impact(separate issue). Variables already exist in policyengine-us post-#8076:federal_benefit_cost,state_benefit_cost, and per-programmedicaid_federal_cost/medicaid_state_cost/chip_federal_cost/chip_state_cost.Why this matters
For reforms that shift cost between levels of government (Medicaid expansion rollback, OBBBA SNAP state match, FMAP changes), the fiscal story is federal-vs-state, not aggregate. Users currently can't see this from the app.
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