O'Malley Says More Budget Cuts Possible
Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) just won approval last month for another round of budget cuts designed to close a $700 million shortfall that emerged early in the state's fiscal year. But still more reductions could soon be on the way, he told reporters Wednesday.
"It wouldn't surprise me if we had another one hundred, two hundred million to cut," O'Malley said after an appearance in Baltimore.
The governor will receive updated revenue estimates next week from a state panel that makes official fiscal projections. He said he had no advance knowledge of what the panel will report and was basing his sense of things on what he hears from his budget secretary and others internally, and his read of the economy.
O'Malley made no mention of what might be next on the chopping block. The last round included layoffs of 205 employees, furloughs of up to 10 days for state workers and the reduction of more than $200 million in state road aid and other assistance to local governments.
-- John Wagner
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September 9, 2009; 2:05 PM ET
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Posted by: charlietuna6661 | September 9, 2009 7:47 PM | Report abuse
Meanwhile, illegal alien support group CASA De Maryland has cut NO employees, while continuing to take in millions of taxpayer dollars from the state and from Montgomery County government.
Posted by: postisarag | September 9, 2009 9:03 PM | Report abuse
I guess people with disabilities don't need quality services or services at all either because the disability community received some of the biggest hits in budgetary cuts.
Posted by: organizedchic | September 9, 2009 9:58 PM | Report abuse
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these cuts just prove that the maryland government didn't need these employees anyway.