Sentences with phrase «budget extenders since»

Paterson, grappling with a $ 9.2 billion deficit and lawmakers who fear for their re-election, has been funding state government with weekly budget extenders since failing to win passage of a state budget on April 1.

Not exact matches

Recall that during the furlough battle, Silver made it clear he felt the day - without - pay plan was unconstitutional, but then his house passed it anyway (they didn't really have a choice, since it was embedded in a budget extender).

(Recall that Cuomo has more than a passing interest in this lawsuit, since it challenges his right as governor to make policy through budget extender bills).

That's the message from Gov. Paterson's emboldened administration, which is vowing to escalate its new and unprecedented tactic of putting major spending cuts into the weekly «extenders» that have kept the state functioning without a completed budget since April 1.