House Democrats are considering serious budget cuts.
Next week, state representatives will unveil a budget proposal that would slash state spending by 12 percent, eliminating thousands of state jobs and cutting funding to dozens of nonprofit agencies.
House leaders are not proposing to raise taxes. They would use some federal stimulus money and some fee hikes to fill the gaps.
"You're looking at a bad situation," said senior budget writer Rep. Mickey Michaux. "People are going to be hurt. It's got cuts in it like nobody has ever seen before."
The current state budget is $21.4 billion. Next year's budget would be about $17.5 billion, the size of the 2006 fiscal year budget. (N&O)
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Re: House eyes major cuts to budget
It is no wonder the budget doesn’t work, an increase of 3.9 billion in that short of a time frame seemed obvious as an excessive increase. It seems someone different should be writing the current budget.