Word has it that the consensus revenue figures due early this evening will make budgeting even tougher for lawmakers as they craft the new two-year spending package set to take effect July 1. April tax collections have lagged, confirming Republican predictions earlier today. So the General Assembly will have to come up with $90 million more in spending cuts – or tax increases, in the case of the Finance Committee – in the first year of the biennium and $150 million in the second.