But in an atmosphere heated by looming state elections on Sept. 4, it did not work out that way.
With a decision looming, state and national politicians began to weigh in, attacking the center as an act of aggression against American values.
A CDU-led government will do what it takes to avoid the looming "state bankruptcy", promises Steffen Kampeter, the party's budget expert.
After the looming state elections comes a longer-term programme: broadening the BJP's appeal beyond its heartland states in India's north and west, to make it a truly national party.
With the June 1 deadline for the competitive federal grant money known as Race to the Top looming, state education officials were eager to ensure that both the Senate and the governor would sign on the deal as well.
As a proportion of Arizona's total budget, the looming state deficit is the largest in the country, and officials have had to cut spending on a host of services.
But the state probe has been on hold while federal prosecutors decided whether to proceed with more serious felony charges, and federal prosecutors felt pressured by the looming state deadline, the person said.
More than 60% of big donations in Queensland went into the Liberal National party's campaign war chest over the past 14 months, as the party ramped up its fundraising for a looming state election.
While a tougher collective response to President Nicolás Maduro's march to autocracy and the looming state collapse is necessary and long overdue, the United States has a diverse range of interests that go beyond mobilizing action against Venezuela.
Or that the Queensland government will not go ahead and grant a mining lease and environmental authority to Adani, even if a looming state land court ruling on a separate challenge by conservationists recommends against it.
