COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Ted Strickland’s budget chief tells lawmakers the state will likely have to make even deeper spending cuts because of economic “storm clouds.”

Budget Director Pari Sabety had a long list of ominous indicators for the state Senate Finance Committee during a presentation on Wednesday. They included the global credit crisis, job losses, declining retail sales, falling state revenues and the serious troubles for Detroit’s Big Three automakers threatening Ohio’s auto industry.

The governor has already ordered state agencies trim 4.75 percent from their budgets, leading to planned cutbacks in a state welfare program, adoption services, Medicaid fraud detection and other programs.

Sabety couldn’t say how large any additional cuts might have to be.