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Cuomo releases budget, wants action on initiatives

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is releasing his annual state budget proposal Tuesday to a New York Legislature that is controlled by his fellow Democrats for the first time in a decade.

Cuomo was scheduled to present what’s expected to be an approximately $170 billion spending plan to the Assembly and Senate in a theater in the Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany.

After a mid-December speech and a New Year’s Day inauguration address in which he outlined his agenda for 2019, the third-term governor is combining the traditional State of the State speech with the mandated release of his spending plan for the fiscal year that begins April 1.

Cuomo said during an interview on WAMC public radio Monday that his agenda is the “most aggressive” he has formed during eight years in office. He and the Democratic leaders of both chambers have vowed to get long-stalled legislation on everything from voting reforms to legalized recreational marijuana approved over the next three months.

With Democrats in control of the governor’s office and Legislature, Cuomo said they’re poised to have “the greatest progressive accomplishments in 100 days that this state has ever seen.”

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