$63 million more in cuts voted by Alaska Senate

The Alaska Senate voted today on a state budget with 63 million dollars more in cuts than the House budget passed last week.
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That’s mainly because the Senate added about 100 million dollars in executive branch cuts — though lawmakers didn’t specify what, exactly, those cuts will be.
Fairbanks Republican Pete Kelly says the legislature can work out the specifics before the end of the session.
“This 100 million dollars was mostly a recognition of those kinds