Given those forces, he said, a no-growth budget for next year would entail about $1.7 billion in program cuts.

Whether program cuts and high-level appeals for bigger families will be successful is still unclear.

Only a few specific program cuts were divulged tonight, but some of them are likely to generate considerable political opposition.

To balance her $16 billion budget, the Governor has recommended more than half a billion dollars in program cuts.

Polish officials say that every zloty lost in taxes will have to be made up through program cuts.

A1 Congress will move up a vote on program cuts.

He said that while the state could order program cuts, they would decimate the district's academic operations.

That left the schools staggering under the effects of drastic layoffs and program cuts.

"At the last meeting, the board only suggested program cuts," she said.

Of that, $338 billion in painful program cuts and tax increases were put into law by the 1990 Reconciliation Act.