differences <\/a> ahead of the April 1 deadline for New York\u2019s state budget, Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie said Monday. <\/p>\nThe budget stopgap gives lawmakers one week to continue weighing issues such as Hochul\u2019s push to weaken the state\u2019s climate law by delaying the timeline New York has to meet emissions targets. Democrats have also criticized Hochul\u2019s pitch to cap non-economic damages awarded in auto accidents, depending on who bears fault.<\/p>\n
In return, lawmakers are pressuring the governor to consider tax increases on corporations, which Hochul has previously resisted.<\/p>\n
The $1 billion funding bill means state government employees and legislative staffers won\u2019t see interruptions to their paychecks. Lawmakers won\u2019t be paid until a final state budget is approved.<\/p>\n
Late budgets have become routine in Albany. Hochul held up last year\u2019s agreement over criminal justice issues, forcing lawmakers to debate the state spending plan into early May. <\/p>\n
This year, delays may be complicated by the midterm elections. Hochul and all 213 members of the state legislature are up for reelection, and an unduly late budget would cut into the time lawmakers spend campaigning for their own priorities.<\/p>\n
Assemblymember John McDonald (D) said political urgency hasn\u2019t yet crept into the budget process.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if people are terribly upset right now,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cMiddle of May, there\u2019s going to be pressure. It\u2019s going to be different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrats in the New York state Senate and Assembly are poised to approve a funding bill granting government…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":695088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,197682,106573,43743,149859,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4573,291009,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-695087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-climate-change-mitigation","tag-damages","tag-federal-tax","tag-government-employees","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-state-budget","tag-tax-extenders","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116324468566722481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}