The long recession is cutting more money from state revenues and expected to force spending cuts of nearly $120 million from South Carolina schools, colleges and prisons. 

By a two-thirds vote, the General Assembly voted to override a majority of Mark Sanford’s budget vetoes Wedensday.

The South Carolina Senate gave its final approval Wednesday afternoon to next year’s budget, which requires the governor to request federal stimulus money.

State lawmakers are wrapping up work on next year’s state budget, which the governor says contains wasteful spending and inefficiency.

Gov. Mark Sanford criticized the Senate budget, pointing out it would create a new Capitol Police Force while cutting Public Safety.

The state Senate spent Wednesday wrapping up work on a state budget that would include the disputed $350 million in federal stimulus money.

Big budget cuts would mean fewer troopers, which would mean more highway deaths, according to the state’s Public Safety Director.

The Budget and Control Board on Wednesday voted 3-1 to cut 2 percent from the budget that started in July at $7 billion and already has seen $1 billion in cuts.

The director of the state Department of Juvenile Justice went before a state Senate subcommittee Wednesday to ask for a restoration of his budget. He says recent cuts are likely to lead to higher crime.

Next week at the Statehouse the state budget will be front and center.

Football rivals Clemson University and the University of South Carolina are weighing options like hiring freezes, cutting back on travel and even cutting enrollment in smaller academic programs.

Employees at the state Department of Consumer Affairs have voluntarily taken a ten percent pay cut in hopes of preventing any layoffs at the agency to meet state budget cuts.

State agencies have turned in possible budget cuts to deal with a severe shortfall, and those cuts could affect you.

The governor has asked state agencies for their bottom ten percent of spending, the lowest priorities that could be cut if necessary.

South Carolina’s Board of Economic Advisors got an update on how bad the state’s economy really is Friday.