California Gov. Newsom proposes slashing 10K vacant state jobs to help close $27.6B deficit

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California has a budget deficit of $27.6 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday — a gap so wide that he’s proposing cutting 10,000 vacant state jobs and suspending some widely used business tax deductions.