Sentences with phrase «budget than the governor»

And he says both houses of the legislature estimate there is $ 350 - 400 million more in the state budget than the governor has predicted, which could also be sent to schools.

And he says both houses of the legislature estimates there is $ 350 to $ 400 million in the state budget than the governor has predicted, which could also be sent to schools.

Not exact matches

Other than eliminating the tariff on mobile offshore drilling units and removing a provision that exempts the Governor General from paying tariffs, this budget contains no tariff relief for Canadians.

The Republican governor appeared on «Squawk Box» the day after signing the state's budget, in which he vetoed more than $ 1 billion in tax increases that he said would only serve to drive families and businesses out of the state.

In his twelve years as Governor Cuomo, notes Albany savant E. J. McMahon, the state lost more than a million people even as Cuomo «doubled the size of the state's budget, and more than doubled the state's debt.»

But the governor's budget office pointed to state - related debt standing at $ 2.9 billion lower than when Cuomo took office.

That get - together came before the April 1 budget deadline and was more about optics than anything else, as the governor was smack in the middle of the David Johnson domestic violence scandal and trying to prove he was still able to lead.

In other words, it sometimes seems like the governor would prefer a negotiated settlement on redistricting than an all - out war with the Legislature, which, particularly if the DOJ doesn't grant the state a waiver and requires the 2012 primaries to be moved from September into the summer (the Assembly Democrats are angling for June, the Senate Republicans for August), could come smack in the middle of budget negotiations.

Even during joint legislative budget hearings, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were unable to get much in the way of detail out of members of the Cuomo administration, though they did — in some cases — get more than what the governor included in his budget documents.

The address comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo was critical of the judiciary seeking an increased budget, which the governor insisted should also lead to the courts in the state opening their doors more than three or four days a week and reduce the backlog of cases.

The Senate passed its ride - hailing bill more than a month ago, and the governor has indicated he would like to see a solution to this issue — which eluded lawmakers last year — worked out as part of the budget.

Not long after the governor's solo Red Room appearance, select Senate Republicans — Sens. Rich Funke, George Amedore, Sue Serino, Terrence Murphy, basically all those in closely - divided and / or contested districts — started releasing statements, blasting the governor for the broken down budget talks, and accusing him of being more concerned about his political ambitions (read: A 2020 White House run) than his current job.

To give you an idea of just how unhappy lawmakers are with the governor's habit — like other governors before him — of stuffing non-budget policy items into the budget, Deputy Senate Minority Leader John DeFrancisco has suggested the Legislature move a constitutional amendment that would go before voters to outlaw anything other than spending from being put into the annual spending plan.

His budget for state is more rational than senate and governor's,» Bloomberg continued.

The WSJ notes that this year's budget deal was harder to come by than usual because legislative factions on the right and left dug in their heels, revealing a «growing polarization» in Albany that «poses a hurdle for a governor who has long positioned himself as a moderate mediator who prizes governmental order such as on - time budgets.»

The governor's budget director, Robert Megna, told the Senator that the provision may seem worse than it actually is.

«I join Senator Kavanagh in urging the Governor to include early voting in the budget so that all New Yorkers can have a fairer government where elections are a right accessible to all rather than a burden on working families,» Senator Leroy Comrie said.

Under Governor Cuomo's Order, the Team is to begin work no later than Friday, January 7, and must submit its first report with findings and recommendations to the Governor by March 1 for consideration in the budget process.

«The Senate Democratic Conference would have a tough time supporting anything that goes slower or lower than what the Governor has publicly proposed in his budget,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, D - Yonkers, said in a statement.

Incredibly, the governor's 2016 Executive Budget Capital Financial plan forecasts that the state's outstanding debt in 2019 will be $ 517 million higher than was projected less than a year ago in the 2015 enacted budget capital plan, before the windfall materiaBudget Capital Financial plan forecasts that the state's outstanding debt in 2019 will be $ 517 million higher than was projected less than a year ago in the 2015 enacted budget capital plan, before the windfall materiabudget capital plan, before the windfall materialized.

The new regulations, agreed upon last month as part of a much bigger budget compromise between legislative leaders and the governor, will do little to halt the erosion of middle - income housing in New York City, and are more dangerous to landlords in principle than in practice.

At the hearing, Governor Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, told lawmakers that the Tier VI proposal's defined contribution plan, which would be similar to the TIAA - CREF plan now offered to employees at the State university system, is more generous than almost anything in the private sector.

But the governor and lawmakers remain deadlocked on how to close an estimated $ 9.2 billion deficit more than six weeks after the budget deadline passed.

Common Cause / NY joins the more than 30 diverse organizations from across the state to urge Governor Cuomo to put Early Voting in the budget — it's up to him to move New York into the present day.»

Magnarelli said he believes the budget will include an increase in education funding that is greater than the $ 961 million the governor proposed.

The problem is that enacting a budget with the Governor will hurt the legislative leaders more than passing extenders.

Following an interview with Talk 1300 WGDJ - AM, Skelos slammed the governor, accusing him of being «being hysterical rather than being constructive in trying to get a budget done.»

They were there to voice their approval for more than $ 200 million earmarked in Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget proposal for new community services and supports for New Yorkers with psychiatric conditions.

The governor's budgets have grown more slowly than those under his predecessors.

Under the Governor's order, the Team is to begin work no later than Friday, Jan. 7, and must submit its first report with findings and recommendations to the Governor by March 1 for consideration in the budget process.

The governor's budget is based on a huge promise — that he will keep the budget growth to less than 2 %.

Democrats say it doesn't go far enough, but say in some aspects it is better than a proposal by Governor Cuomo, who has asked that anti-sexual harassment measures be considered as part of the state budget.

«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.

The governor said the budget — which spends about $ 250 million more than he proposed, yet still clocks in at $ 132.5 million overall — is a victory for New Yorkers.

The governor's Division of Budget is estimating surpluses if future spending increases are held at less than 2 percent.

Cuomo administration officials, for the second time in less than a week, blasted DiNapoli for botching «basic math» after the controller released a report questioning aspects of the governor's proposed budget.

Paterson also spoke of the need to unify the Democratic Party, and he praised the IDC, saying that its members «understood the budget crisis better» than their fellow conference members back when he was in the governor's office.

New York's expected budget gap is growing larger — a more than $ 4 billion deficit heading into the next fiscal year now poses a challenge for Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers as they prepare to run for re-election.

The practice of putting executive chamber staffers on different agency lines to keep costs down and enable the governor to hire more people than his official budget technically allows is a long standing one.

(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).

Asked what he thought Cuomo's motivation was for penning the OpEd about the built - in spending increases, Silver said he believes the governor looked at his proposed budget and determined he's going to «wind up spending more money than was spent last year even though he said there would be a cut.»

The legislative leaders are working to resolve outstanding budget issues and the Senate hopes to see engagement by the governor in some form other than a press release.»

«After years of stagnation and stunted ambition, we are building across the state bigger and better than before, and the energetic felling of the old bridge to make way for the new, on budget and ahead of schedule bridge, showcases our renewed commitment to building new, inspiring infrastructure for the future,» Governor Cuomo said.

The governor is scheduled to give a hard - hitting address to the state tomorrow regarding a budget crisis that is «worse than anyone realizes,» and to urge state agencies to «slash spending» to avoid a $ 4 billion, two - year budget gap.

Assemblyman Kevin Cahill didn't tell us much about the governor's $ 145 billion proposed budget, other than the process has started, which we knew.

Vos branded Stroebel and two others terrorists for negotiating deals on the budget this year directly with the governor, rather than through legislative leadership.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.

Governor Andrew Cuomo began the budget season with an ambitious agenda than included a wide array of items that he tied to the budget, including raising the minimum wage, the Dream Act, and reforming the state's grand jury process.

Ritchie says the state is in better shape now than two years ago, and that's in part because of her efforts to work with Governor Andrew Cuomo to pass an on - time budget, and because of the property tax cap.