San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie plans to eliminate about 1,400 city jobs and strip about $100 million in grants and other contracts to balance the city’s budget, according to his nearly $16 billion spending proposal released Friday.

The cuts were anticipated as the city had projected a $782 million shortfall for the next two-year budget cycle, along with other looming funding threats from the White House .

“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his address Friday. “Here’s the bottom line: We have to stop spending more than we can afford. The era of soaring city budgets and deteriorating street conditions is over.”

Most of the jobs on the chopping block are currently vacant, according to the mayor’s office.

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