BALTIMORE — With $2 billion in budget cuts already on the table, Maryland officials are likely to make hundreds of millions of dollars worth of additional trims to state programs and services because of impacts of President Donald Trump’s actions in the White House, state Senate President Bill Ferguson said Friday.

Cuts to disabilities services and some education priorities are among the reductions Gov. Wes Moore proposed last month alongside a $1 billion tax reform plan in order to fill a $3 billion budget gap in the next fiscal year.

Ferguson said those measures will likely not be enough. The Trump administration’s moves to slash the federal workforce — which Maryland’s income tax base relies on more than other states — and the potential shifting of Medicaid costs from the federal government to states will put more pressure on the state than previously anticipated, he said.

“This is going to have an enormously negative impact on Maryland’s economy and our ability to invest in our priorities,” Ferguson said during a Friday news conference. “I say all of this because I think we’re going to have to have a very sobering conversation about what this budget looks like in the next 30 days.”

Those conversations will likely include cuts totaling “an additional several hundred million” dollars, he said while noting it was too early to estimate an exact number.

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