Not exact matches
However, Congress began to pass
budget - busting legislation back in 2015 by pursuing a permanent debt - financed doc fix followed by an even more costly tax
extender (and omnibus
appropriations) bill — at a total cost of over $ 100 billion in 2019.
Another set of big - ticket Cuomo priorities was already baked into this week's
budget «
extender» bill: nearly $ 15 billion in capital
appropriations for purposes ranging from basic infrastructure (highways, transit) to a $ 400 million second phase of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative, a $ 700 million «community healthcare capital investment» in Brooklyn, and more 8 - figure allocations to the kind of «economic development» programs that have failed to rejuvenate Upstate.
But for the past two weeks, the governor has added various
budget components to the
extenders — obliging lawmakers to accept his spending ideas or risk being blamed for a government shutdown if the weekly
appropriation fails to pass.
But what started as a push to embed and augment MIECHV in the federal
budget has turned into a time - constrained push to keep it going with any sort of
appropriations extender.