New York State government could shut down Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. if the state legislature doesn’t approve Gov. Paterson’s latest “extender” by then. Extenders are those weekly provision the state has operated under since the April deadline for a new budget went by.\u00a0 No extender, no way to pay the bills.<\/p>\n
Paterson’s last extender included over $700 million in health care spending cuts. Including those “new” cuts in a bill to extend the old budget was an unprecedented, controversial move. A desperate measure for a desperate time, the governor said.<\/p>\n
Lawmakers reluctantly went along with him, but as this week ends, the governor is proposing $300 million in cuts to mental hygiene and human services in his next extender, and lawmakers are sounding less compliant<\/a>.<\/p>\n So, theoretically, it could happen. HOW it would take shape is beginning to emerge. Anonymous sources told the AP that agencies were being prepped in a conference call yesterday. Today, agency memos are beginning to circulate in Albany. The Times Union blog<\/a>, Capitol Confidential, posted a DOT memo, and readers are responding with memos from other departments — DOH, Labor, DEC and others.<\/p>\n I’ll be talking with our Albany reporter, Karen DeWitt first thing during the 8 O’clock Hour Monday morning to see what’s up as the week begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York State government could shut down Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. if the state legislature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}