Sentences with phrase «temporary budget extender»

The Legislature passed temporary budget extender measures to keep state government running through the end of May in the absence of a full budget deal, avoiding a full government shutdown and buying themselves some more time to keep negotiating.

Gov. Cuomo said he's willing to keep state government afloat with temporary budget extenders until he sees what damage President Trump and Congress inflict on New York's finances.

«The Assembly is prepared to pass a temporary budget extender should one be necessary to avoid a shutdown of government while we resolve these issues,» he said in a statement released shortly before Cuomo's.

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.

«The Assembly is prepared to pass a temporary budget extender should one be necessary to avoid a shutdown of government while we resolve these issues.»

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.

He has not appeared in public since Tuesday, but in a statement at a quarter to midnight the governor again blamed the impasse on «an ultraconservative Congress» and said he was submitting a temporary budget extender that would fund the operations of state government through May 31.

The state Capitol's budget logjam gave way to a sudden flow of budget bills on Tuesday, just a day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers approved a temporary budget extender that would have allowed them to push the negotiating deadline to the end of May.