Sentences with phrase «latest budget extender»

Gov. David Paterson has apparently included $ 775 million in cuts to state funding for health care services in his latest budget extender bill, making good on his pledge to try to force the Legislature's hand on some of his proposed spending reductions.

Assuming all goes according to plan and the latest budget extender passes this afternoon without a hitch, the 2010 - 2011 budget will be almost two - thirds of the way done — all through an unprecedented piecemeal fashion and without a single conference committee.

At today's Puerto Rican Day Parade, Gov. David Paterson downplayed the possibility that there will be a government shutdown, insisting a sufficient number of senators will vote «yes» and pass his latest budget extender bill tomorrow afternoon.

Not exact matches

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos give the governor hell for not sharing the latest budget outlook agreed upon by the majority conferences, Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson seems to forget Leader Kolb's name, and Gov. Paterson challenges Skelos to vote for his next extender, which he claims has no taxes and includes cuts to medicaid.

In an effort to protest the Governor's inclusion of furloughs in the latest round of budget extenders, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt is going to be shutting down his offices for one day a week.

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.

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.

Cuomo went on to allow that Paterson is in a «desperate» situation with the budget more than two months late, and thus has had to resort to a «desperate tactic» of insisting that the Legislature choose between approving extender bills that include cuts (in this case, cuts to health care spending) and a government shutdown.

State law requires pay to be withheld when a budget is late, though Cuomo could include it in the budget extender.

The governor has touted his and lawmakers» budgetary deal making in advance of the start of the fiscal year (Cuomo has effectively used the threat of including broad swaths of his preferred budget and policy measures in extender legislation should the budget be late).

«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.

Things got ugly last night on the Senate floor during the debate over the latest round of budget extenders — here's Sen. John DeFrancisco referring to Democrats as «patsies.»

Silver was on the losing end of Silver V. Pataki, the 2004 case that reaffirmed the governor had the power to use the extenders when the budget was late.

Despite decades of late budgets, Monday's action marked the first time a governor has enacted a portion of the final state budget through a temporary budget extender bill.

According to the governor, uncertainty about President Donald Trump's budget, and how New York will fare, is forcing him to consider a bare - bones spending plan, or even extenders, which would make the budget late.

«Once the Legislature made the budget late, still timely, but a week late, the governor goes to extender, but all the extenders is the power with executives,» he said.

The governor already wields broad influence over the budget process itself and a late budget could empower him to include broad swaths of his preferred spending plan in emergency extender legislation.

Cuomo said Paterson's novel use of budget extenders to force an end to what he deemed «ground hog day» late budgets of the past «changes the equation.»

In an effort to avert a shutdown of New York's state government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced late Sunday evening he would introduce a temporary budget extender that would fund the government until May 31.

Following Monday's passage of a two - month «extender» designed to keep government operating following the failure to craft a 12 - month budget deal by the March 31 deadline, Tuesday had seen a sudden late - night rush of action on budget bills in the Republican - controlled state Senate.

The governor has the power to simply wait until the budget is late, on April 1st, then put all of his policies and spending plan in a budget extender.

READ: Complete coverage of budget extender legislation In a statement late Monday,...

As the state legislature huddles with the governor over the now - late state budget, local projects have been included in the extender signed on Monday, April 3.

ALBANY — After a Friday of furious budget activity, the Legislature returns to the Capitol today to vote on Gov. David Paterson's latest provocative one - week budget extender — including a chunky tax hike on cigarettes and tobacco products as well as stepped - up tax enforcement on sales of tobacco products on Indian reservations.

So the governor's office drafted a 1,700 - page extender budget late Sunday for lawmakers to approve in order to keep the state government operating until May 31.

Greenberg said that while governors usually lose the most poll standing when the budget is late, but that the effects this year should be minimal: «They passed an extender, nothing stopped, so from the average New York citizen's point of view, nothing happened.»

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.

The action on a so - called extender budget came after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced late Sunday night that his effort to broker a deal between the Democrat - led Assembly and the Republicans in the Senate had failed.