AG Andrew Cuomo subtly upped the ante on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, calling for Gov. David Paterson to put a property tax cap
into a budget extender and force lawmakers to go on the record about where they stand on the issue.
Sen. Craig Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos wasted no time in reacting to AG Andrew Cuomo's call this morning for Gov. David Paterson to put a property tax cap
into a budget extender bill to force lawmakers to go on the record regarding the controversial proposal.
US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn has reportedly come down on the side of the public employee unions in the furlough lawsuit, ruling that Gov. David Paterson can not insert his day - without - pay language
into budget extender bills.
Sean Coffey was quick to declare solidarity with the man he wants to replace, Andrew Cuomo, following the AG's call earlier today for the governor to put a property tax cap
into a budget extender bill to force lawmakers to take a position on the controversial measure.
«We're not afraid; we have a big pair of balls,» said a Paterson administration source, vowing to keep upping the ante on the Legislature by putting spending cuts
into budget extenders.
-- stuffing a full year's worth of cuts
into budget extenders if the Legislature misses the April 1 deadline.
Not exact matches
Gov. Andrew Cuomo derided any suggestion that he would at least threaten his own casino siting plan
into an emergency
budget extender as «hostile» and «macho.»
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.
Here's some footage of Sen. John DeFrancisco railing against the Democrats during a debate over
budget extenders yesterday for sending what he deemed «deceptive» robocalls
into the districts of Republican senators.
A temporary restraining order was granted against the plan two days after it was grudgingly passed by the Legislature, which was forced to approve it after Paterson loaded the furlough measure
into the fifth weekly
budget extender.
AG Andrew Cuomo this morning offered some grudging respect for Gov. David Paterson's latest hardball
budget tactic of trying to force the Legislature to accept his spending cuts by inserting them
into extender bills, saying the effort might prove effective, but is hardly ideal.
Cuomo has now made it crystal clear that he will won't hesitate to force the Legislature
into accepting his
budget in the absence of an «amicable» deal by putting it
into an
extender and forcing lawmakers to choose between adopting his plan as - is and shutting down all but essential state operations.
There's a limit to Gov. David Paterson's toughness — he won't put education spending cuts
into the next round of
budget extenders.
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.
A day after Paterson bullied lawmakers
into accepting $ 775 million worth of health care cuts as part of an emergency
extender to keep government operating, the governor is considering a painful menu of new
budget cuts.
Still, Paterson aides had warned that lacking a
budget deal by the end of this week, he likely will insert the education cuts
into next week's
extender.
An unswayed Paterson vowed to slip a provision calling for one - day - a-week furloughs for 100,000 state workers
into the emergency
budget extenders he sends to the Legislature next week.
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.
Cuomo's comments came during a discussion with Chartock about Gov. David Paterson's new tactic of putting pieces of his
budget into extender bills and forcing the Legislature to choose between accepting his cuts and shutting down the government.
Cuomo was poised Sunday night to introduce legislation that would temporarily extend the current
budget, a backup plan known as an
extender, to keep money flowing
into state programs, salaries and projects.
The $ 153 billion
budget passed on April 9, nine days
into the 2017 — 18 fiscal year and a week after an emergency «
budget extender» kept the government operating.
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.
Infrastructure Notably slipped
into the
extender budget is an allowance for billions of dollars a year in spending for all of Cuomo's signature economic development and infrastructure projects, include major New York City projects — including an MTA subway expansion and transformations of Penn Station and Laguardia Airport — and the next phase of the Buffalo Billion.
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.