Gov. Bob McDonnell used his line-item veto authority to reduce state funding for public broadcasting, calling it "a smart, practical budgeting decision to make Virginia government smaller and more efficient and save taxpayer dollars."
McDonnell's veto will reduce educational programming by $424,000, or about 16 percent, in the fiscal year that begins July 1. Total state funding for public broadcasting has been cut by about 25 percent since last year.
The governor did not make any other changes to the two-year, $80.7 billion spending plan that runs through June 2012.
It is the third time since December that the Republican governor has sought cuts to public broadcasting.
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