Sentences with phrase «new budget extender»

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The Republican - led Senate approved budget extender legislation on Monday following a legislative impasse on key issues, including raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 in New York.

Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, who had insisted he wouldn't back a budget without raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18 included in it, backed the extender, saying his priority was to keep government running in New York.

The Senate deemed the budget extender bill illegal this afternoon, and then promptly passed it anyway, choosing to risk angering the (already very upset) state worker unions over infuriating the rest of New York State but shutting down the government.

New York State Sen. Roy McDonald, R - Saratoga, defended the industry last week on the Senate floor as the Democratic majority shot down his second attempt to amend an emergency budget extender bill to include funds for NYRA.

For the first time yesterday, Cuomo talked at length about the new paradigm created by the creative use of extender bills by his predecessor, David Paterson, during last year's budget battle.

Well rather than pass a budget before the April 1 deadline, Cuomo and the state legislature agreed to so - called extenders, continuing government funding and pushing the deadline for a new budget back until the end of May.

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.

ICYMI: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver suggested during a CapTon interview last night that the Legislature won't stand for this new budget dynamic in which the governor holds all the cards thanks to the extender bills method pioneered by former Gov. David Paterson.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo raises the possibility of an «extender» budget blamed on federal government - level uncertainty over potential cuts in spending to the state, the Fiscal Policy Institute has released a report examining the impact of D.C. aid to New York state and local governments.

But in May he realized a little trick: he was the only one who could draft «extender» bills, the temporary, customarily skeletal budget bills that pay for the functioning of New York's government while state leaders are working out the real budget.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Cuomo, who has boasted of on - time budgets, appeared relaxed after the New York State Assembly passed an emergency extender budget.

ALBANY, NY (05/10/2010)(readMedia)-- The New York State Legislature has approved state budget extender legislation which includes mandatory one day per week furloughs for state employees.

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 said, under the budget extender, New York becomes the first state to cap the growth of prescription drug spending in its Medicaid program, which he said has grown 25 percent over the past three years.

New York State Assembymember Dov Hikind, representing District 48, voices his opinion during a vote on a budget extender at the Capitol on Monday, April 3, 2017 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

After a day of closed - door negotiations with legislative leaders, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in an interview with Spectrum News NY1 Monday evening that uncertainty about how a new Republican president and Congress might affect the state could lead to an «extender» of the current budget rather than a new oNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in an interview with Spectrum News NY1 Monday evening that uncertainty about how a new Republican president and Congress might affect the state could lead to an «extender» of the current budget rather than a new onew Republican president and Congress might affect the state could lead to an «extender» of the current budget rather than a new onew one.

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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.»

Cuomo raised the possibility of an «extender budget» with four more days of negotiations, doubling down the next day by asserting that Congress was determined to declare «war on New York.»

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.