The proposed savings included $27.3 million from human services, $23.3 million from corrections and $6 million from community colleges, touching off an outcry that the reductions would be hard to achieve by June 30 without layoffs, service cutbacks and program eliminations.
Legislative Republicans blasted the outgoing governor and his administration for “dumping” the proposed cuts as a new Branstad administration prepared to take charge today. However, Culver, in an interview, fired back that lawmakers “cut and ran on the executive branch” last session by not working with him to specify how the savings were to be achieved and merely mandated that the executive branch do it.
Thank you Mr. Culver. 
