Budget Cuts

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director Scott Talbott says the agency faces another round of budget cuts unless lawmakers increase its funding.

Talbott told a legislative committee Wednesday that the agency will have to slash $1

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PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released by the Obama administration due to budget pressures. Officials have also scaled back border agent hours, drug patrols and staffing at border crossings — all during the peak illegal border-crossing season

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The administration's top trade official says budget cuts are making it more difficult to negotiate new trade deals and enforce existing ones.

Demetrios Marantis, the acting U

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of universities and college professionals is asserting the automatic budget cuts could end up costing some students hundreds of dollars a year.

The 77-member Student Aid Alliance says the cost could total as much as $876 a year in new fees, fewer work-study hours and reduced grants for students receiving federal aid

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will meet Friday with congressional leaders to discuss what to do about $85 billion in mandatory spending cuts.

The top Democrat and Republican in both the House and Senate will attend

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is laying out a grim list of spending cuts the Pentagon will have to make in the coming weeks that he says will seriously damage the country's economy and degrade the military's ability to respond to a crisis

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is urging Congress to avoid across-the-board cuts that he says would harm the Education Department's ability to provide for the neediest students in the next school year

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Department of Family Services may cut 30 positions and $8 million in the coming two-year budget period.

The Associated Press  reports that the cuts would leave the DFS with 749 employee slots

The agency proposed the cuts to meet Gov

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees is scheduled to hear a presentation on possible budget cuts for next year.

Falling energy revenues prompted Gov. Matt Mead to order state agencies to prepare for 8-percent budget cuts in the fiscal year that starts July 2013

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