By Vik Jolly | Sacramento Bee
A nonpartisan California agency is cautioning lawmakers that savings from a cut to state operations proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom may not materialize and that would pose a larger deficit in the next budget year.
In his budget revisions earlier this months, Newsom proposed trimming state operations — cuts to nearly all department budgets — by nearly 8% to save approximately $3 billion a year to deal with an estimated $45 billion budget deficit.
In addition the administration wants to achieve $762.5 million in savings by eliminating 10,000 now-vacant state jobs.
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