Comptroller: Budget Deficit Growing

HARTFORD (AP) — State Comptroller Nancy Wyman says Governor M. Jodi Rell must come up with more cuts to balance this year’s state budget.

Wyman is now projecting a $338 million deficit in the approved $18.4 billion budget. Wyman says since the projected deficit exceeds one percent of the budget, state law requires Rell to submit a second plan for bringing this year’s budget back into balance.

A spokesman for Rell says the governor agrees and that she will present a plan before the month is out.