By Scott Detrow, KQED News Fix
Few politicians — especially Democrats — eye an extra $2.5 billion as suspiciously as Gov. Jerry Brown. That is the amount California revenue estimates have increased since Brown introduced his initial budget in January.
But as Brown rolled out his revised $156 billion spending plan Tuesday, he spent the bulk of the press conference pushing back against calls to further hike state spending and restore programs cut during the recession.
“Now, you say we ought to do more,” Brown said at one point. “Well, to do more you need to have to take it from some other program — from the courts, from the university, from roads, from something — or you have to get more taxes. There is no other way around it. And I invite everybody to scrutinize. If you can find more cookies in the jar, hallelujah.”
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