The Iowa Senate approved spending cuts this week that Senator Amy Sinclair says are necessary to reach a balanced budget.

Sinclair says that while no one ever likes to cut funding to needed services, the cuts were made in conjunction with department heads to limit the impact on Iowans. K-12 education, Medicaid, and property tax backfill to local governments were held harmless in the process. She says while this has been called a revenue shortfall she believes Iowa has a spending problem and concluded that the new Republican Senate majority would not fall into the budgeting practices that brought the state to this point.