The budget deficit could actually be much higher than Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested last week, his aides said today.
Schwarzenegger "misspoke" when he framed the 2008-09 budget deficit as a $10 billion problem, according to his communications director, Matt David. Instead, the governor intended to say the 2008-09 budget deficit could be $10 billion higher than the original estimate, for a total of $17.4 billion, David said.
