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Senate Republicans Propose Budget Cuts

October
14

Democrats may not have proposed ways to cut the budget, but Senate Republicans did in fact release a plan today on how to cut the growing $3.1 billion to $4.1 billion budget gap.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos also noted that the current state budget raised spending by more than $13 billion and taxes by more than $8 billion.

“Just as I warned last spring, the Democrats’ decision to raise taxes and spending hurt our economy, caused more pain for taxpayers, and still left us with an enormous budget deficit,” Skelos said.

The Republicans’ plan includes cutting back what they estimate is $2.2 billion in general fund spending added to the current budget by Democrats and freezing state purchases of recreational lands to save $78 million.

They also recommended freezing Medicaid expansions to save $200 million; teinstating welfare and Medicaid anti-fraud protections to save $34 million; cutting Medicaid optional services to save $150 million; and cutting state agency contract balances by five percent to save $300 million.

Assembly Republicans also presented some ideas, such as reducing state operating funds, streamlining state government, limiting some Medicaid payments and removing pork-barrel spending of $100 million.

Here’s the list of $2.2 billion in spending additions that Senate Republicans say Democrats added to the current year’s budget.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 4:16 pm by Joseph Spector.
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