Texas leaders order spending cuts of $1.2 billion

Garrett:
AUSTIN — Texas leaders, anxious about a widening budget gap, ordered state agencies today to cut spending by $1.2 billion.

While public schools, prisons, home care for the frail and institutions for vulnerable Texans largely escaped reductions, leaders approved scores of cuts, including some that could threaten recent progress in children’s Medicaid, adult education and making two-year colleges more convenient.
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