McAuliffe orders cuts to Virginia state agencies

Published August 26, 2014 9:58pm ET



RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is ordering state agency heads to come up with across-the-board budget cuts for the next two years in order to cope with a more than $880 million budget shortfall.

McAuliffe’s chief of staff, Paul Reagan, sent a memo to agency chiefs on Friday ordering them to come up with suggestions on how to cut 5 percent from their budgets this fiscal year and 7 percent next year.

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