On behalf of the nation's nearly 1400 health centers and the 27 million patients they serve, the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) wants to express our sincere appreciation for the $ 7.8 billion dollars in federal grant funding for the Community Health Center program that was included in the bipartisan
budget deal passed by Congress early this morning.
NHSA was also pleased
the budget deal passed by Congress early this morning extended the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV), a program that helps guide low - income, at - risk mothers in parenting.
Lawmakers finally authorized the Children's Health Insurance Program in a short - term
budget deal passed by Congress, but they failed to act on another key program for poor kids — the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV).
U.S. Mortgage Insurers (USMI) President and Executive Director Lindsey Johnson issued the following statement on the federal
budget deal passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump today, which includes an extension of the tax deduction for mortgage insurance (MI) premiums.
Some lawmakers are vowing to undo the change, which was included in
a budget deal passed last month.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Mortgage Insurers (USMI) President and Executive Director Lindsey Johnson issued the following statement on the federal
budget deal passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump today, which includes an extension of the tax deduction for mortgage insurance (MI) premiums.
Lastly, the two - year
budget deal passed by Congress and signed by President Obama will increase spending over the next two years by $ 80 billion.
The city had agreed to pay its share of an $ 800 million plan to fix the subway system, half of which the state agreed to pay as part of the state
budget deal passed Friday night.
The two - year
budget deal passed the House 332 - 94 with overwhelming bipartisan support.
Not exact matches
In January the U.S. Congress
passed a
budget deal that boosts U.S. government spending, following a December tax package that slashes corporate tax rates.
The House
passed a short - term
budget deal Tuesday, which is separate from the Senate's agreement.
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Budget bills need to start
passing today if the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are to be able to lay claim to an «on time»
deal, which is constitutionally due midnight April 1.
Atop the list is the revised revenue legislation that he tried to send to the Assembly and Senate — and saw summarily rejected — after the Senate departed the Capitol for the July 4th holiday weekend without
passing the final piece of the two - way legislative
budget deal.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver offered the following explanation for why the Assembly and Senate have included the FMAP cash in their two - way
budget deal even though it appears at the moment that Congress is not going to
pass legislation releasing it.
The Senate is not going to vote on that bill Monday because it
deals with funds that will be distributed next month, and they hope to have
budget passed by then.
The statement, which appears in full after the jump, slams the Democrats» two - way
budget deal that
passed last night in a party vote, saying it's not balanced, fails to create jobs, and «taxes too much and spends too much.»
The Legislature
passed temporary
budget extender measures to keep state government running through the end of May in the absence of a full
budget deal, avoiding a full government shutdown and buying themselves some more time to keep negotiating.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he has no plans to keep his members in Albany today any longer than it takes to
pass the two - way revenue bill and unidentified «substantive things,» which more or less shuts down the possibility that there will be any new
budget deals.
Congress is expected this week to
pass yet another short - term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, prompting a bipartisan pair of senators to introduce a narrow bill on immigration aimed at ending the impasse that has hindered a two - year
budget deal.
Chances of a
budget deal seem to be slipping ever more into the realm of impossibility with each
passing day, leaving even veteran lawmakers like Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari questioning if an agreement will ever be reached.
Again, the both the Assembly and Senate must
pass these to provide sufficient funding for the government to keep operating in the absence of an actual
budget deal.
At 1 p.m., the NYC Council meets and is expected to
pass the
budget deal reached recently by the mayor and the speaker, City Hall, Manhattan.
People with Cuomo's view argue that Flanagan was too weak to sell the special session
deal to members, and needed second floor help last year to
pass the
budget.
A
deal announced in November to bring the IDC and mainline Democrats together after the State
budget is
passed in late March or early April left many scratching their heads about the timing of both the announcement and the reconciliation date being so far away.
Heastie also backed out of a
budget deadline
deal to
pass a bill that would have started the process of amending the constitution to prevent state convicts like Silver from collecting their pensions.
Taxpayers are spending $ 1.7 billion in the current fiscal year on the Department of Homeless Services — after twice injecting extra cash totaling $ 287 million beyond what was in the city
budget passed in June to
deal with the burgeoning homeless crisis.
«I think right now the votes are not there to
pass that bill collectively on the floor of the House,» the Virginia Democrat said of the continuing resolution to fund most federal agencies through March 23 that is to carry the
budget deal.
«You put this cap together with the
budget that we just
passed, it would help turn this state around,» said the governor, who later added that he believes the cap is perhaps even «more important» than the on - time
budget deal he pushed through the Legislature in late March.
It's touch - and - go down at the Capitol with the Senate Democrats trying hard to maintain the 32 votes they need to
pass today's pieces of the two - way
budget deal.
The NYT thinks the just - announced NYC
budget deal, which is expected to be
passed by the Council today, will «soon need to be revised because of overly optimistic revenue projections» and merely delays difficult cuts.
In a separate statement, Cuomo condemned the «rushed, secretive approach» to the bill
passing, even as some compared it to the traditional last - minute maneuvering and
deal - making that typifies
budget making and legislation in Albany.
To that end, Paterson predicted state lawmakers will
pass the
budget extender he sent to them last week that includes furloughs for some 70 percent of the state workforce, and again attacked the unions for refusing to negotiate a
deal to help close the $ 9.2 billion deficit.
Assuming this
budget deal is
passed, will that December 11 date still be in effect?
As the
budget clock ticks down, a host of progressive / left - leaning organizations and the labor - backed Working Families Party is making what amounts to a Hail Mary attempt to stop the Legislature from
passing the education portion of the
budget deal.
According to a recent NY Times Editorial, the SUNY «Empowerment Plan» (which, incidentally, is explained in more detail there than I've seen here) should be severed and
dealt with at a future date, and the damn
budget should be
passed without it already.
In April, the governor was criticized even by fellow Democrats for cutting an overly generous
deal with Senate Republicans, weakening his main proposals to
pass a timely
budget.
Despite the tentative
deal, details on specific proposals continued to be hammered out through Thursday, with the New York State Senate scheduling a rare session to
pass budget bills today.
«Why not
pass a two - year — rather than a one - year —
budget deal, Democrats and Republicans figure, so they don't have to
deal with prickly
budget negotiations next fall, right before many of them are up for reelection?»
Cuomo has called the
budget «the most complex piece of legislation we
pass,» which is true in part because it is a way of doing business in Albany that a good
deal of policy is unnecessarily included in
budget negotiations.
The
deal was hammered four days after the state legislature extended the deadline for
passing the
budget by two months as a result of the legislative body missing the original April 1
budget deadline.
Because the Senate earlier rejected the House -
passed continuing resolution on a procedural step and was attempting to send back an amended version with the
budget deal, the House will need to
pass it to re-open government.
The modest reforms lawmakers
passed as part of the
budget deal earlier in the session really didn't go far enough.
If that happens, the Legislature might try to
pass the extenders now and then go back and «fix» those issues on which they don't agree in the final
budget deal.
He was one of the leaders who shut down the Senate for nearly four months when they couldn't
pass a
budget on time... and cut a
deal putting Pedro Espada in charge, who's under investigation for tax fraud and money laundering.»
Perhaps, you should line up a grief counselor to help you
deal with the shock of being proven wrong when the
budget is
passed.
The bill has been modified to try to quell concerns in the Assembly Democratic conference that prevented the measure from
passing last year despite efforts by a former WNY Democratic senator, Bill Stachowski, to hold up a
budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide proposal.
The Nassau County lawmaker, one of just two Democrats in the Long Island delegation — among whom property tax relief is a Very Big
Deal (capitalization mine this time), called on Paterson to put his tax cap proposal in a
budget extender bill to force the Legislature to choose between shutting down the government and
passing the controversial plan.
Though he left the administration months ago, Percoco has continued to push Cuomo's agenda behind the scenes, even pushing lawmakers on the governor's behalf to
pass the recent
budget deal.
Technically speaking, legislative leaders and the governor should reach a
budget deal today in order to have bills printed and sufficiently «aged» to be
passed by the April 1 constitutional deadline.