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Schwarzenegger urges deep cuts to close budget gap

  • 12-07-2010
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By Wyatt Buchanan/San Francisco Chronicle

Outgoing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a last-ditch effort Monday to help close California's budget deficit by proposing deep cuts to social services and prisons, ideas that had been rejected by lawmakers in previous budget negotiations. The Republican governor on Monday declared a fiscal emergency and called the Legislature into a special session to deal with part of the deficit, which is $25.4 billion over the next 18 months. He called for spending cuts and other solutions worth $1.9 billion in the current fiscal year, which ends in June, and $7.9 billion more in the next fiscal year, which takes Schwarzenegger's proposal well into the term of Gov.-elect Jerry Brown. Schwarzenegger was not concerned about overlapping with the incoming Democrat, who takes over Jan. 3. (more…)


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