New York’s budget deficit is growing again, Gov. David Paterson said in a leaders meeting. The current fiscal year deficit, Paterson said, is now pegged at $3.2 billion, with the two-year gap ballooning to $6.8 billion.
The governor said those numbers will be announced formally on Friday with his Budget Division’s mid-year report.
Paterson was speaking to legislative leaders at a meeting in New York City in efforts to build support for his plan to cut the deficit during a special session that he’s called for Tuesday, Nov. 10.
He previously pegged the current deficit, which runs through the end of this fiscal year on March 31, 2010, was $3 billion; he put the two-year gap at $5 billion.