The Assembly was chugging along with its debate of nine budget bills until it took up the Aid to Localities bill, which contains a $90 million cut in state funding for services to the developmentally disabled.

Lawmakers from both parties railed against the cuts, which members of both the Assembly and Senate attempted to plug in their one-house budget resolutions. Cuomo inserted $120 million in cuts to disabled care programs in budget amendments in response to federal allegations that New York was over-billing it through the Medicaid program. The cut was pared to $90 million, but lawmakers questioned why the state would spend money for other items — including $350 tax rebate checks and $425 million for film and television production tax credits — while cutting this funding.