Governor predicts shortfall in federal stimulus financing

COLUMBUS — Gov. Ted Strickland said that he is awaiting final details of the federal stimulus compromise but likely will have to make cuts to the nearly $55 billion executive budget he unveiled earlier this month.

“I think there will be a shortfall,” he said Thursday. “ I will deal with it ... while continuing to protect education.”

Strickland had included upward of $3 billion in stimulus dollars in his two-year budget proposal, which was formally introduced in the Ohio House Thursday.

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