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Friday, January 8, 2010

Schwarzenegger declares budget emergency, proposes deep cuts - Latest News - sacbee.com


Schwarzenegger declares budget emergency, proposes deep cuts - Latest News - sacbee.com: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled an $82.9 billion state spending plan today that calls for no tax hikes but envisions pay cuts for state workers, reductions in services to California's neediest residents - and on the benevolence of the federal government.

The governor also declared yet another fiscal emergency, and called for yet another special session of the Legislature, designed to keep a projected $19.9 billion budget deficit from growing by another $2.4 billion.

'We must begin our work immediately,' Schwarzenegger said in his message to legislators. 'If we fail to take action in the special session that I have called, our problem will only grow, and the decisions that will be required to make up for lost savings will grow even more difficult than those now before us.'"