{"id":187817,"date":"2026-04-07T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:01:09","slug":"does-it-matter-the-budget-is-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187817\/","title":{"rendered":"Does it matter the budget is late?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state budget is now six days late, and because of the religious holidays, not much is expected to be accomplished before Tuesday when lawmakers return to Albany to pass a budget extender.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To give us a sense of what\u2019s next, and whether a late budget matters, Capital Tonight invited Shontell Plummer to the show.<\/p>\n<p>Plummer is partner and head of NY Practice at Tusk Strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Tusk, she served as chief of staff and chief counsel to the state Senate Majority Conference. She spoke with Capital Tonight host Susan Arbetter on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state budget is now six days late, and because of the religious holidays, not much is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,4281,201,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-187817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","12":"tag-capital-tonight","13":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-new-york-state","18":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-state-news","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-state-budget","24":"tag-susan-arbetter","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}