Albany, NY – Gov. Andrew Cuomo is sealing a deal with the Legislature on a tentative state budget that would be historic for its spending cuts as well as its timeliness.
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Cuomo says the budget will set New York on a new course after decades of overspending and overtaxing that have driven residents out of state for better opportunities.
The Legislature still must pass the voluminous budget bills this week. In past years tentative deals have fallen apart after lawmakers, lobbyists and reporters pick apart the deals struck in closed-door negotiations.
But the 2011-12 budget that Cuomo, Senate leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver stood behind Sunday would be nearly identical to the proposal Cuomo presented Feb. 1.
The budget also addresses a $10 billion deficit.
The budget is due Friday.
Hopefully, Cuomo stood strong and did not restore any of the budget cuts that the politicians were demanding. We read here almost every day over the past several weeks that some community group or special interest group was demanding that their favorite pork barrel or grant program or subidies should be restored without saying where the money would come from. Kok hakovod to Cuomo for finally beginning the process of restorting fiscal sanity to NYS.
i think its very funny that the budget is due on april fools day…..anyone else find this amusing?