Brian Lair on WNYC, and it's April 1st, first day of the new fiscal year for New York State, when the new budget is supposed to have been passed.

But Governor Hocl and lawmakers in

Albany have now officially missed that deadline for the fourth year in a row. They did pass a one-week

extender to, you know, keep the lights on through next Tuesday, but negotiations are still

very much ongoing. On what? Well, the big sticking point that everyone's talking about is taxes,

specifically whether to raise them on the wealthy to help fund Mayor Mamdani's agenda and close

New York City's $5.4 billion budget gap. But there's a handful of other fights still getting

worked out as well. So with me now to take us

inside the negotiations is none other than our own John Campbell, who covers Albany for WNYC and Gothamist.

Hi, John. Hi, Brian. So the budget's late again, and lawmakers passed the one week

extender yesterday. Practically speaking, are there any

consequences for everyday New Yorkers? I assume this is not like a government shutdown like we've

been covering from Washington where things actually grind to a halt. Yeah, I mean,

this is very different from the federal shutdowns that we've seen over the years,

and that's largely because there's some boring structural, budgetary structural reasons for

that, but also mostly because the lawmakers passed an extender yesterday.

And basically what that is, is this one in particular is about a week long.

It'll get us through Tuesday, through the early days of Passover, and through the Easter

holiday.

And what that really, really does is it ensures state employees get paid.

And this year and in all the other late budget fiascos over the years,

these extenders have been passed to ensure the employees get paid. So no, you don't see the same

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