The deadline for the session budget is looming, but first, fishing!

Friday, the Minnesota House and Senate adjourned for the weekend and will not meet before 11 a.m. on Monday, a week of their constitutional deadline.

If they do not have a balanced budget by Monday, May 19, they will be forced by a special session.

“We are only doing fishing,” the Lisa Demuth, journalists’ republican speaker on Friday. “This is the only reason. We will all be there together or in one way or another, in shape. So, if you hear that we do not meet, it is because of fishing. It is not because something has broken down.”

Demuth acknowledges that the movement in the negotiations is slow, but says that all the budgetary documents are in place so that everything is quickly put in place once they agree on the budgetary objectives.

Although the Governor and Legislative Managers are opening the Governor’s Fishing in Cross Lake on Saturday, the governor said they would continue to speak there. “We will talk about fishing, but there will also be secondary discussions (budget). Look, we have had a week. It’s time to cut the bait and do this thing.”

While the governor and legislative leaders express optimism, political analysts have doubts when questioned about the chances of a smooth finish of a week from Monday. “Well, it’s thin and not and we are not approaching,” explains Brian McClung, former communications director of the Republican Gov.tim Pawlenty.

The former senator of the state of DFL, Ember Reichgott Junge, agrees with McClung that respecting the deadline will not be easy.

“The problem at the moment is that they have not achieved their budgetary objectives,” she said in a registered segment for “in question with Tom Hauser”. “Now what does that mean?”

There are many important disagreements between Republicans and Democrats, including the question of the pursuit of undocumented immigrants to access the health care of states. The amount of money spent on the program should already flower at $ 550 million, after an initial projection of $ 196 million.

“The amount of money we are talking about, even if we go up as you say, represents less than one percent of the human services budget. In fact, it is less than a quarter of a hundred.”

The Republicans say that these dollars add up quickly. “It will be a real point to remain the Republicans because their replica is at a time when we have a state budget deficit in the future to spend limited resources for health care for illegal immigrants?”

The legislators and the governor also have disagreements on the financing of pupils of non -public schools and unemployment insurance for working school workers, as well as differences on changes in the family leave and remunerated medical leave and have won disease periods.

If the budget is not balanced by May 19, the next actual deadline is June 30, when the financing of the State ceases to flow towards programs not approved by the Legislative Assembly and was signed by the Governor.