ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan has outlined the specifics in his cost-savings plan to cut 2 percent from state agencies across the board, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Friday outlining the specifics.
Hogan included the spending reductions in his January budget proposal to address a deficit he inherited. The Legislature approved them. However, the incoming Republican governor waited to name the specific reductions to give his new administration more time to find savings.
Details of the planned cuts come in the same week the state reported that it ended the last fiscal year with a higher-than-expected budget balance of about $295 million, largely from $214 million in higher state revenues on income taxes. Still, Maryland faces a budget deficit in future years, David Brinkley, Hogan’s budget secretary, wrote in a letter announcing the cuts.
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Thank god omally is gone. He would have raised spending 2% at least.
ReplyDeleteHogan 2020. Book it.
ReplyDeleteFinally someone who sees where the cuts need to be. And the "time to find savings" ok, how about when we the people have been taxed to death in the past, we never got "time to find savings".
ReplyDelete1150-Might have something to do with only having 2 Republican governors in the past 50 years...
ReplyDeletePlease loan him out to desperate Delawareans. We need someone with common sense and fiscal responsibility. We're eat up with Obamas rubber stamp ever spending liberals and sick to death of it.
ReplyDeletegreat guess msp will go on a ticket writing campaign to make up the difference!
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