The governor's aides will give lawmakers a briefing today on details of cuts aimed at closing a budget gap that is $24 billion wide, by some forecasts. 'The voters sent a very clear message to Sacramento: Live within your means, cut spending, slash the size of government, get rid of the waste and the inefficiency and don't raise taxes,' Schwarzenegger says. Hours before his aides were to deliver lawmakers a plan for monumental reductions in government services, Gov.