(Sacramento) - In order to address the states immediate cash crisis, help protect jobs tied to threatened transportation projects, and tackle a major piece of the looming state budget deficit, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg have announced the Assembly and Senate will advance a package of $18 billion in real cuts, new revenues and other solutions that can be approved by majority vote. Speaker Bass says the majority vote, partial solution is needed because of the states historic fiscal crisis and the refusal of legislative Republicans to support solutions that require a two-thirds vote. Heres more in this Assembly Access video.
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