JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Jay Nixon announced a wide-reaching, $400 million state budget freeze on Friday, citing his fear that a GOP backed tax plan could cripple state revenue. 

With the new fiscal year 2014 budget going into effect, where might those cuts come from if lawmakers override his veto of House Bill 256?  

According to a document provided by the Nixon administration, education will likely be hit the hardest, followed by repairs to state buildings like the Capitol, Medicaid provider rates, and core funding for higher education institutions. 

The University Of Missouri System is set to take the largest funding chop if the money is not released. According to a document provided by state education officials, the four campus system will receive $15.8 million less than lawmakers approved in May — totaling nearly $8 million less than they received last year. 

In total, two and four year institutions overall will receive nearly $17 million less than they did in the last fiscal year. 

Since his announcement on Friday, Republicans have presented united opposition to Nixon’s withholds. House Speaker Tim Jones said they might be unconstitutional because the state has a budget surplus, and Nixon’s feared $1.2 billion in lost revenue hasn’t actually happened.

For even the potential for revenue to be lost on the scale Nixon says it will, the General Assembly would have to first override his veto (which, itself is in question — the original bill passed the House six votes short of a veto override), and the U.S. House would have to pass the Senate’s Marketplace Fairness Act, which Republicans have voiced their opposition to, despite bipartisan support in the upper chamber.