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May 7, 2020

State Budget Cuts Loom as Trump Rails Against "Blue State Bailouts"
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In Ohio, Republican Governor Mike De Wine said Tuesday he's cutting $775
million from the state budget over the next two months. The austerity
includes $210 million in cuts to Medicaid and nearly half a billion
dollars in cuts to education. Governor De Wine said he won't tap the
state's $2.7 billion "rainy day fund."

Gov. Mike De Wine: "We've received a lot of questions: Are you going to
pull down the 'rainy day fund'? And the answer is, yes, we will. We're
just not going to do it in the next two months."

Governor De Wine's budget cuts came as President Trump said
congressional proposals to fund state governments during the pandemic
were unfair to Republicans because "all the states that need help -
they're run by Democrats in every case." He made the remark Tuesday from
Arizona, a state whose Republican-led government projects a budget
shortfall of as much as $1.6 billion by the end of the fiscal year.


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