In nearly 200 amendments to Gov. Wes Moore’s budget legislation, state lawmakers have proposed new cuts that would trim community college scholarships, eliminate vacant positions in the state workforce and slash planned increases in one of the governor’s signature programs aimed at fighting child poverty.
The cuts — totaling more than $2 billion in planned spending reductions — aim to resolve most of the state’s roughly $3.3 billion budget deficit .
Moore and the leaders of the Democratic-controlled Maryland General Assembly agreed on the framework for the revised plan last week, and it was given preliminary approval Tuesday after several hours of debate in the House…