SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Governor Rod Blagojevich plans to make a staggering $1.5 billion in cuts to the state budget lawmakers approved last month unless legislators step in with money to prevent them.

That's what an aide to the governor tells the Associated Press today.

Blagojevich intends to detail the proposed deep cuts at a news conference this afternoon at his Chicago office.

The governor will also try to use the cuts to pressure the House to soon send him two ideas that would spare more than $1 billion in the proposed cuts. They are plans to borrowing money for pension funding and sweep money out of special state funds.

Blagojevich doesn't plan to call lawmakers back into special session right away. He'll urge the House to come back to pass the revenue ideas that will start being felt when the new budget year starts July First.

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