Sentences with phrase «through budget extenders»

Doing large budget cuts through budget extenders is a lousy way to run a large government; and likely illegal.

A key component of the Senate GOP's lawsuit against the prisoner counting change included in the 2010 - 2011 budget is a challenge to the way that switch was made — through a budget extender bill sent to the Legislature by then - Gov.

(Recall that Cuomo has more than a passing interest in this lawsuit, since it challenges his right as governor to make policy through budget extender bills).

This doesn't necessarily mean there won't be different circumstances where the Legislature isn't more willing to really test the impact of preferring a «shut down» of the government option to capitulation to the Governor's position through budget extender — if faced with that choice.

Not exact matches

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.

But if it has to get done on Monday, it gets done on Monday... I'm looking forward to passing budget bills, I'm not doing it through the extenders.»

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.

State lawmakers passed a third round of bare bones budget extenders, which will keep the state running through April 25.

Here's a brief video of Gov. David Paterson — post leaders meeting — defending his controverisal use of budget extenders to push his spending cuts through the Legislature, compliments of Capital Tonight's own Kaitlyn Ross.

«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.

Gov. David Paterson in 2010 pioneered the use of passing his preferred version of the budget through the extender process when no agreement had been reached in August of that year.

It argues, in short, that the governor does not have the power to enact policy through an emergency extender, which — until Paterson — was traditionally used to keep government running in the absence of a budget deal.

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.

In the absence of a budget, Albany funds government operations on a week - to - week basis through emergency budget extenders.

Why wouldn't every future Gov wait until after April 1st and try to get their budget priorities done through extenders in this do or die scenario?

While insisting he remains optimistic about reaching an «amicable» and on - time budget deal with the Assembly and Senate leaders, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it clear today he will have no qualms about letting the clock run out and forcing his entire budget on the Legislature through extenders.

«If we don't have a budget done by April 1, then I will submit a budget through the extender method,» the governor said.

The extender, as Nick reported early this morning, does NOT include the contentious «raise the age» measure that has been largely responsible for holding up a final budget deal, and also only covers operations through May 31.

Gov. David Paterson sent another bare bones budget extender to the Legislature that's good through April 25.

DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says if no agreement is reached on some of the unrelated topics by the budget deadline, lawmakers will likely oppose any attempt by the governor to force through the policy changes in the form of extender bills to keep the government running.

Paterson for laying the groundwork for Cuomo's signature accomplishments through his pioneering use of budget extenders to force cuts and pushing for gay marriage.

«Picking a number now, and saying this is going to be the number, and not knowing what's going to happen next week and next month and when the federal government passes the budget or when they don't pass the budget, or when they do the next continuing resolution, is very hard,» said Cuomo, who again mentioned that everyone will know a lot more from Washington by the end of May, which is when the state «extender» runs through.