Seated in the State Capitol's historic Red Room to make
the budget deal announcement, flanked by several top advisers, Cuomo made it clear, again and again, that he intended to lay a heavy hand on matters concerning New York City, and, by extension, on matters concerning his intraparty rival, Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Not exact matches
A
deal announced in November to bring the IDC and mainline Democrats together after the State
budget is passed in late March or early April left many scratching their heads about the timing of both the
announcement and the reconciliation date being so far away.
interested enough in finding out what the Commission had discovered that he has launched an inquiry, in part, to get to the bottom of whether «investigations potentially significant to the public interest have been bargained away as part of the negotiated arrangement between legislative and executive leaders,» as he wrote in a letter to the Commission's members on April 3 — a reference to the ethics
deal struck between the governor and the Legislature as part of their
budget agreement at the end of March, which coincided with Cuomo's
announcement that he was shutting down the Commission.
A Cuomo source called the notion that the governor knew about a pending
deal between unions and districts before today's hard - line
budget announcement «preposterous, ridiculous, no truth whatsoever.»
The Wall Street Journal reports that the sides are closing in on a
deal to expand the NYPD force by several hundred and that an
announcement on that and the rest of the
budget could be as early as Monday night.
«I don't think the governor's not here and he's around making
announcements on the
budget and the like and he's up
dealing with the flooding issues,» he said.
ALBANY — Legislative leaders were close to a
deal on the new $ 142 billion state
budget early Saturday, though few details were available and no formal
announcements had been made...
The payment was in line with my
budget, the car was exactly what I needed, the service there was fantastic, the
announcement after I signed the
deal was uplifting, and to have everyone I met in the dealership congratulate me on the purchase and wish me well felt great.