Sentences with phrase «budget extenders if»

-- stuffing a full year's worth of cuts into budget extenders if the Legislature misses the April 1 deadline.

Megna said that while the governor was currently seeking approval for that plan as a separate bill — something Paterson was not willing to do for the furlough measure — he would not rule out including it in a future budget extender if it's rejected.

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But if it has to get done on Monday, it gets done on Monday... I'm looking forward to passing budget bills, I'm not doing it through the extenders.»

If the budget isn't done by then, Paterson said, he'll be putting the rest of it into extender bills — including education — and force the lawmakers to choose between a shutdown and passing controversial cuts.

However, even if the Legislature won, Benjamin said, the decision would only apply to extenders and not the budget itself — and the legal fight likely wouldn't improve the already acrimonious climate at the Capitol, which is contributing to the ever - later state budget.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ratcheting up threats to force the Legislature's hand via extender bills if an amicable budget deal isn't reached by April 1, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is continuing to express optimism that it won't come to that.

Today's Siena poll shows New Yorkers, by a large 67 - 27 percent margin, would have preferred to see the Legislature pass Cuomo's budget in an extender bill — even if it could not be amended at all — than to opt for shutting down the government.

«And I don't think anybody wants to go through the extenders if the budget is late... Nobody wants us to shut down government, and I don't think anybody wants it to be a situation where the Assembly and the Senate goes two ways and you put a budget together.

Tuesday, a Paterson administration source hinted that the governor's next budget extender, if a budget deal is not reached, could include cuts to mental health and human services programs, as well as the cigarette tax.

«If the legislature is unwilling to do a budget on reasonable financial projections, then the option would be an extender budget, which is, let's just extend the current level of spending until we know what the financial picture actually is,» Cuomo said.

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.

It remains to be seen if the governor himself was posturing a bit in the interview, in which he declared a straight «extender» budget is necessary because of uncertainty on the federal level.

After his appearance in Syracuse earlier today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he's been working hard to reach an agreement with the Legislature, but intends to get the best budget «for the people» by using the nuclear extender option, if necessary, because «the buck stops on my desk.»

«If we don't have a budget done by April 1, then I will submit a budget through the extender method,» the governor said.

«The three parties agree or they agree to disagree in a very dramatic fashion, which is the governor does an extender budget and if they really disagree they shutdown the government.»

Then came an ultimatum: If there's no budget deal by June 28 (three months after the budget was due), Paterson said he'll include the rest of his executive budget in that day's emergency extender bill — forcing the Legislature either to OK the entire package or shut down the government.

But with the two - month extender in place, «it's all running, it's all in place,» he said — even if many other budget items and high - profile agenda items like raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 were left unresolved.

This doesn't necessarily mean there won't be different circumstances where the Legislature isn't more willing to really test the impact of preferring a «shut down» of the government option to capitulation to the Governor's position through budget extender — if faced with that choice.

The very busy state Budget Director, Robert Megna, is crunching the numbers to see what would actually happen if next week's budget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shutBudget Director, Robert Megna, is crunching the numbers to see what would actually happen if next week's budget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shutbudget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shut down.

DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says if no agreement is reached on some of the unrelated topics by the budget deadline, lawmakers will likely oppose any attempt by the governor to force through the policy changes in the form of extender bills to keep the government running.

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.

Arguing that «this process has got to end,» Gov. David Paterson on Wednesday said that if lawmakers can't come to a final agreement on the state's 2010 - 2011 fiscal plan by June 28, he'll force - feed them his own budget blueprint in a weekly extender bill.

Paterson said last week that if a final budget plan isn't settled this week, he'll put the remainder of his budget proposal into the extender to be passed on Monday, June 28.

That was back in 2010, when at the end of June Paterson told lawmakers that if they didn't pass his budget — which was nearly three months late — he would put the spending plan and all of its proposed cuts in an extender bill.