The governor and the Legislature may well be forced to drastically reduce aid to the city to make ends meet.
Decades of dwindling population and resources had already greatly weakened the schools, but now the Republican-controlled state government has drastically cut aid to the district.
Most of the international community has shunned the new government, drastically curtailing aid to one of the world's poorest countries.
As for city government, the big trouble began in 1991, when the state economy was in a recession and New York State drastically cut aid to cities; Troy's fell by almost one third.
Mr. Lee angered North Korea by declaring that his government would drastically reduce aid and undertake no new joint economic projects with the impoverished North unless it abandoned its nuclear weapons programs.
In response, the U.S. drastically cut aid to avoid supporting a terrorist group, a move regional experts say directly contributed to thousands of deaths in the South Central region.
I think we should scale back drastically on military aid.
Mr. Lee said he would drastically curtail such aid unless Pyongyang abandoned its nuclear programs.
Europe, with its own economic crisis, has drastically cut its aid.
State college prices have gone up largely because state governments have drastically cut college aid.
