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Senate Committee Puts Budget On Pork-Free Diet
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A South Carolina Senate committee has approved a budget that eliminates every pork barrel project the House approved last month and cuts $50 million in spending.
The plan passed by the Senate Finance Committee also gives state workers a 2 percent raise. That's up from the 1 percent raise in the House budget.
The House plan cut most agency budgets outside of public schools and health care agencies by 2.4 percent. But Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman said his panel's plan calls for average reductions of 3.6 percent.
The full Senate will consider the budget in two weeks.
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Revenue collections in South Carolina through February are already more than $50 million behind projections and forecasts look gloomy.
Source: FOX Carolina
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