By Jill Colvin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
CITY HALL — Mayor Michael Bloomberg dialed down the heat on Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday, two days after blasting the state budget as "an outrage."
On Monday, Bloomberg slammed the tentative budget deal between state lawmakers for what he described as the state's largest cut to city aid "ever." Lawmakers began taking up the bills Tuesday night.
"I think that proportionally the cuts that are inflicted on New York are an outrage," he told reporters outside City Hall.
But on Wednesday, the mayor had changed his tune.
"It's good government, a good leader making hard and tough decisions, which aren't always popular," the mayor said of the governor's cuts during a press conference in the Bronx.
"There's no fight with the governor," he said.
While the mayor repeated his frustrations about the city sending so much money to Albany, he sounded more confident that the governor would consider taking up a series of reforms that Bloomberg has long argued would save the city hundreds of millions in the coming year.
They include proposals to reform pension payouts and reduce state mandates that the mayor says force the city to run programs without helping foot the bill.
"He's, I think, going to help us find ways to reduce our expenses that don't cost the state money," the mayor said, but was vague about which initiatives those might be.
Bloomberg Press Secretary Stu Loeser declined to comment on private conversations between the governor and the mayor.
A spokesman for the governor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
