Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Thursday that General Assembly still has a lot of work to do before the legislature’s scheduled adjournment Saturday, as budget confereees feverishly worked to hammer out differences between amendments proposed by the House and Senate.
“There are still some significant bridges to be able to build on K-12 education and then to improve some of the long-term structural positions on things like getting rid of the accelerated sales tax, more money in the rainy day fund, the retirement system,” McDonnell said on WRVA radio.
“They’re working hard and long hours in order to try to get this done, but I think it’s going to take a lot more work to be done by Saturday night,” he said.
“They’re not done yet,” he added, saying that he’s regularly in touch with the conferees and “encouraging them to do some things that I think will help bridge those gaps.”
Last year, the Assembly adjourned a day late when “we had the worst budget crisis in modern Virginia history, and they got a pretty reasonable result,” McDonnell said.
