"Our wallet is empty," he said in the rare midyear appearance.
His speech comes just four months after he and lawmakers agreed to a two-year budget package that was intended to close a deficit of $42 billion through mid-2010.
Declining tax revenue and overly optimistic assumptions about the tax increases they approved in February have reopened the state's deficit.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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