The mayor got the state aid that he sought last year only after the Republican-controlled Sthee Senate anDemocratic-controlledrolled State Assembly rose up and passed a budget and an aid package for the city over the governor's vetoes.
Governor Pataki walked away from negotiations in the spring and left everything up to the Legislature, which passed a budget and a city aid package over his vetoes.
This year's federal budget includes a $40m aid package for Vieques, but for many residents this is too little, too late.In June, George Bush said that the navy would cease fire, and leave Vieques in 2003.
Some counties found pleasant news in the budget, like school aid packages for Rockland County or a $400,000 grant for a nursing home in Chemung County that would allow the county to break even this year.
Tracing the Venezuelan money is difficult because Mr. Ortega has refused to include a five-year, $1.6 billion Venezuelan aid package in the budget, where it would face congressional oversight.
And even though every proposal for budget cuts specifically exempts Israel's aid package (unlike every domestic program you can imagine).
While city officials and state lawmakers from the five boroughs said those twin factors boded well for the city, which is facing multibillion-dollar budget gaps beginning in 2006, the overall aid package from Albany fell a bit short of the city's initial request, those who had analyzed a series of state budget bills said on Wednesday.
Turkey also suffers from capital outflows and needs a large aid package to cover the government budget deficit in 2002, analysts say.
After cutting state aid to Rutgers for the last three years, the Legislature in the budget approved in late June increased its basic aid package for Rutgers by $1.3 million, to $315.4 million.
The federal budget process is far from over, but the aid package in the foreign operations subcommittee is often a good indicator of how the administration's priorities will fare in Congress.
