Malloy Meets With Speaker, Signs Executive Order
HARTFORD, CT — House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz left Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office Friday with a smile on his face following what the governor described as a “respectful” meeting.
The meeting requested by the speaker follows a day of blistering comments by the governor about the House Democratic budget proposal, which would increase the sales tax from 6.35 percent to 6.99 percent.
“Watching sausage be made—and I had a summer job doing it—is not pretty,” Malloy said. “We’re making sausage. Right now we’re not making anything, but eventually we have to make sausage.”
Malloy, who proclaimed the House Democratic budget proposal had “more holes than Swiss cheese,” repeated that he doesn’t want a budget that leads with revenue. At the same time, he will try and reconcile the difference between his budget and other legislative budget proposals, which are in various forms and various stages of completion.
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