Budget Cuts

In the State Budget the Legislature and Governor Mead directed state agencies to prepare cuts to their budgets of 4% for fiscal year 2014, but with natural gas prices moving still lower Governor Mead has now asked them to be ready with proposed 8% reductions.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In its budget submission next month, the Obama administration will urge lawmakers to revisit the failed attempt by a congressional supercommittee to cut the deficit by at least $1

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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Budget cuts of five percent or more would hurt alternative programs in Wyoming's prison system, according to the corrections department.

Department director Robert Lampert briefed lawmakers on Monday about what cuts would be required under different funding scenarios

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Modernization and better customer service are behind the closing of 259 U.S. Department of Agriculture offices and lab facilities across the country including two in Wyoming.

The consolidations come as the USDA budget gets a 3 billion dollar slashing

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is putting his personal stamp on a rejiggered Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in defense budget cuts, marking a turning point in U

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Top Wyoming lawmakers are directing state agencies to brace for possible budget cuts.

Republican Sen. Phil Nicholas, of Laramie, and Republican Rep. Rosie Berger, of Big Horn, are co-chairmen of the Joint Appropriations Committee

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Responding to requests from a legislative committee and Gov. Matt Mead, the University of Wyoming has started working on three possible budget-cutting scenarios.

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Federal budget cuts to Homeland Security Agencies across the country means about 1.5 million less for Wyoming next year.

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Letters mailed in Rapid City, South Dakota would have to take a longer trip under one cost-cutting proposal being considered by the U. S. Postal Service.

The agency is considering closing the city's mail-processing and distribution facility and moving those operations to Casper under the plan, the Casper Star-Tribune reports that a letter mailed in Rapid City, or some other towns in western South Dakota, would have to be sent to Casper for sorting and then sent back across the border for delivery

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