Dunleavy has advocated deeper spending cuts and more oil and mining development.

In the past, the control board has favored deeper spending cuts.

Congressional Republicans want deeper spending cuts and no tax increases.

Republicans hope to impose even deeper spending cuts in fiscal 2011, the year covered by Obama's budget proposal.

He faces a budget battle back in Washington against Republicans who say he must enact deeper spending cuts.

The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls claimed in the Guardian that the Conservatives were planning much deeper spending cuts than needed by the deficit.

That anger grew when the PSOE was replaced by the right-wing Partido Popular, and deeper spending cuts critically damaged the country's social fabric.

But the PP is could face an intense social and union backlash if they make deeper spending cuts without an absolute majority in Congress.

Republicans also want deeper spending cuts than those sought by Obama and fellow Democrats, particularly on entitlement programs like the Medicare and Medicaid health plans.

The deeper spending cut package is unlikely to become law, as President Barack Obama and Democrats who control the Senate are certain to oppose it.