HARTFORD, Conn.—Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has ordered about $34 million in state budget cuts in an effort to reduce the state's deficit.
The order issued on Thursday came days after Comptroller Nancy Wyman predicted the two-year, $37.6 billion budget is already $624 million in deficit.
But the governor's and General Assembly's budget offices predict the deficit is nearly $400 million.
Rell used her executive powers to trim various expenses, including $2.4 million in spending by the agency that runs the state Capitol complex and oversees the needs of the General Assembly as well as a $112,813 cut to the Connecticut Humanities Council.
Rell says she will make additional cuts in the coming weeks. She is also preparing a larger deficit mitigation plan that she will present to lawmakers before December.
