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CA Senate Passes Budget.
The Assembly still has to pass it, so we're still technically without a budget.
Senators started their session Thursday evening and worked through the early-morning hours Friday to get enough votes to pass the more controversial measures, including three that took or borrowed billions of dollars from cities and counties.
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It eliminates nearly 60 percent of the deficit with spending cuts to core state services such as education, state parks and prisons.
The rest is reached by one-time raids on local government funding and accounting maneuvers, such as deferring state employee paychecks by one day for a savings on paper of $1.2 billion.
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Both legislative houses quickly passed a key bill with cuts to higher education, college grants, health programs, welfare, in-home supportive services and state prisons. But measures aimed at filling the rest of the deficit proved more difficult.
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CA Senate Passes Budget.
The Assembly still has to pass it, so we're still technically without a budget.
Senators started their session Thursday evening and worked through the early-morning hours Friday to get enough votes to pass the more controversial measures, including three that took or borrowed billions of dollars from cities and counties.
[...]
It eliminates nearly 60 percent of the deficit with spending cuts to core state services such as education, state parks and prisons.
The rest is reached by one-time raids on local government funding and accounting maneuvers, such as deferring state employee paychecks by one day for a savings on paper of $1.2 billion.
[...]
Both legislative houses quickly passed a key bill with cuts to higher education, college grants, health programs, welfare, in-home supportive services and state prisons. But measures aimed at filling the rest of the deficit proved more difficult.
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