• Font Size    

Today's Most Popular Video

Deputy Attacked, Other Inmates Intervene
E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

Pawlenty Gives Go-Ahead To Solo Minn. Budget Cuts

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

   Print     Share +   
Jul 1, 2009 2:17 pm US/Central

Pawlenty Gives Go-Ahead To Solo Minn. Budget Cuts

(WCCO) Gov. Tim Pawlenty has signed off on a plan to balance the budget without legislative consent, giving one of his top appointees the go-ahead to make cuts.

Pawlenty approved the plan laid out by Management and Budget Commissioner Tom Hanson.

His office released a one-sentence letter from the governor to Hanson.

Hanson's staff will adjust the state accounting system to strip out $2.7 billion in payments set to go out over the next two years, including $1.3 billion for the budget year that began Wednesday.

The changes will be made over the next month and a half.

Schools will wait longer for state aid checks, while health and welfare programs, local governments, colleges and universities and most state agencies will get less money.

(© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.