{"id":2303,"date":"2009-05-14T19:06:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T19:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2009-05-14T19:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T19:06:35","slug":"down_to_the_wir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"Down To The Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve reached the point in the legislative session where everyone is a little punchy from lack of sleep and a little more prone to dramatics. Governor Pawlenty just announced that he will not call the legislature back for a special session<\/a> if they can’t negotiate a budget agreement by Monday’s deadline. Instead, he’ll use his line-item veto power to carve up the budget bills that the legislature has already passed. If that happens, health care programs are likely to take a big hit. And we’re likely to repeat this whole drama in a couple years (assuming Pawlenty does get reelected for a third term) because the structural imbalances in the state budget will not be addressed. <\/p>\n

There’s no reason not to take Pawlenty’s threat seriously, which might prompt Democrats to attempt an override of the governor’s veto of a tax bill. But Republicans are still smarting from their failure to block an override last year and they are not likely to let it happen again. A negotiated agreement would be a much better solution, but nobody is blinking yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve reached the point in the legislative session where everyone is a little punchy from lack of sleep and a little more prone to dramatics. Governor Pawlenty just announced that he will not call the legislature back for a special session if they can’t negotiate a budget agreement by Monday’s deadline. Instead, he’ll use his […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}