Sentences with phrase «over budget extenders»

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.

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However, Congress began to pass budget - busting legislation back in 2015 by pursuing a permanent debt - financed doc fix followed by an even more costly tax extender (and omnibus appropriations) bill — at a total cost of over $ 100 billion in 2019.

Silver and Sampson informed reporters that the meeting was held to discuss the remainder of the budget itself — not the next round of extenders, which Paterson told DN Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett over the weekend might not include the hot - button issue of education cuts.

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.

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.»

Despite the robocalls that went out on Long Island over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has now made heretofore source - based speculation official: His conference will provide sufficient votes this afternoon to pass the 11th budget extender and avoid a government shutdown.

Lawmakers in both the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly over the last several budget years have grown increasingly concerned with the power Gov. Andrew Cuomo has threatened to use via the extender process.

Cuomo's linkage of policy to spending in his $ 142 billion budget plan hinges on a court ruling that sided with Republican Gov. George Pataki that granted the governor broader latitude over the budget and emergency extender process.

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.

Now, the Legislature has lost its negotiating hammer over Cuomo, who got several projects he wanted funded in the emergency budget extender bills.

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.

For AQE, which is pushing for education spending on par with a decade - old court ruling, the problem for them was Cuomo suggesting a short - term extender may be a viable option for the state budget considering the uncertainty emanating from Washington over the federal government's budget cuts.

A coalition of construction trade groups is suing Paterson over his bare bone budget extenders.

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.

Before the 2017 talks, Cuomo presided over a string of budgets passing in the Legislature before the deadline passed or on April 1, making for «on time» or «timely» budgets that did not require extenders to keep state government funded.

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.

Speaker Carl E. Heastie of the Assembly on Monday during debate over the so - called budget extender.