Malloy Refuses To Meet Until Legislators Give Him A Budget Document

HARTFORD, CT — Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday that he won’t be meeting with Democratic legislative leaders to go over their bipartisan budget agreement until he’s able to review a document.

“I cannot give feedback on a budget I have not seen and reviewed,” Malloy told reporters during a half-hour conversation in his state Capitol office. “In reality, without a line-by-line document with hard numbers there is no balanced budget to discuss.”

He said he’s more concerned as the days go on that legislative leaders reached a budget deal he won’t be able to sign.

Malloy has been running the state by executive order since July 1. He vetoed a Republican budget that passed with the help of eight Democratic legislators at the end of September. That’s when legislative leaders went into closed-door meeting without the governor to see if they could get a deal without him.

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